Perq plmt bile duct stent at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$5,663.07
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.
$16,180.20
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.
$1,233.00 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $20,636.00 with Cigna — 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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| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,233.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,488.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↓ -57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,715.58 | ↓ -52% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,715.58 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,858.51 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,915.68 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $3,625.28 | ↓ -36% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $3,916.16 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $4,640.36 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4,853.00 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5,843.81 | ↑ +3% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5,843.81 | ↑ +3% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $5,843.81 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,843.81 | ↑ +3% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,960.69 | ↑ +5% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,960.69 | ↑ +5% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $6,019.12 | ↑ +6% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $6,252.88 | ↑ +10% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $6,252.88 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $7,008.88 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $7,164.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7,455.00 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $7,961.00 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,961.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8,215.00 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $8,313.98 | ↑ +47% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,461.71 | ↑ +49% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8,765.72 | ↑ +55% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $8,765.72 | ↑ +55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $8,765.72 | ↑ +55% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8,918.55 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $9,280.72 | ↑ +64% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $9,708.12 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10,517.13 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $10,517.13 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $11,002.54 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $11,326.14 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $11,326.14 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $12,135.15 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $12,296.96 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20,636.00 | ↑ +264% |
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Perq plmt bile duct stent at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $2,801.34 – $8,410.66 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $8,164.80 | $2,858.51 – $14,293.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $9,185.40 | $71.00 – $14,293.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $8,505.00 | $71.00 – $14,293.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $8,164.80 | $2,858.51 – $14,293.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $9,185.40 | $85.00 – $14,293.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $9,185.40 | $2,858.51 – $14,293.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $8,505.00 | $71.00 – $14,293.73 |