Phlebotomy therapeutic at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$205.80
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.
$588.00
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.
$81.77 with BCBS-TX vs $446.88 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $81.77 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $104.67 | ↓ -49% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -37% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -37% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -37% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $131.69 | ↓ -36% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $131.69 | ↓ -36% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $132.98 | ↓ -35% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -33% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $158.09 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $175.00 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $187.53 | ↓ -9% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $188.56 | ↓ -8% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↓ -6% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $193.67 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $209.34 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $258.00 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $287.00 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $287.00 | ↑ +39% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $352.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $382.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $382.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $399.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $411.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $411.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $441.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $446.88 | ↑ +117% |
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Phlebotomy therapeutic at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $1,249.05 | $189.71 – $947.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $275.15 | $77.96 – $343.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $238.04 | $49.00 – $357.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $275.15 | $55.03 – $343.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $275.15 | $73.37 – $343.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $238.04 | $76.41 – $357.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $238.04 | $122.99 – $357.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $275.15 | $91.72 – $412.73 |