Pressure velocity wire add ves at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$370.44
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.
$1,058.40
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.
$70.39 with TCHP vs $2,749.00 with United — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $70.39 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $75.57 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $101.51 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $231.16 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $635.04 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $687.96 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $687.96 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $740.88 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $740.88 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $793.80 | ↑ +114% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +352% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +568% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +642% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +642% |
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Pressure velocity wire add ves at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $6,281.34 | $1,078.51 – $1,078.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,208.05 | $625.61 – $3,128.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,050.51 | $422.06 – $3,075.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,127.73 | $425.55 – $2,659.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,208.05 | $588.81 – $3,128.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,050.51 | $658.21 – $3,075.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,050.51 | $1,059.43 – $3,075.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,127.73 | $709.24 – $3,191.60 |