Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$165.90
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$474.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$9.00 with BCBS - TX vs $344.93 with MultiPlan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $9.00 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $10.16 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $17.51 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $17.96 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $21.97 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $26.85 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $27.05 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $27.05 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $27.05 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $37.20 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $39.22 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $39.22 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $275.94 | ↑ +66% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $298.94 | ↑ +80% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $298.94 | ↑ +80% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $321.93 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $321.93 | ↑ +94% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $344.93 | ↑ +108% |
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Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $13.88 – $92.92 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $254.73 | $31.80 – $31.80 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $274.51 | $30.89 – $39.06 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $32.45 | $11.29 – $92.92 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $99.46 | $7.43 – $89.11 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $14.99 | $10.91 – $77.05 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $9.38 | $5.46 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $99.46 | $9.00 – $89.11 |