Prolonged IV inf, req pump at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$138.29
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.
$395.10
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.
$90.00 with Humana vs $594.43 with BCBS-TX — 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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| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $90.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $90.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $232.20 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $237.06 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $256.82 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $256.82 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $256.82 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $276.57 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $276.57 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $296.33 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $297.22 | ↑ +115% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $332.23 | ↑ +140% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $332.23 | ↑ +140% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $332.23 | ↑ +140% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $332.23 | ↑ +140% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $338.87 | ↑ +145% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $338.87 | ↑ +145% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $342.20 | ↑ +147% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $355.49 | ↑ +157% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $355.49 | ↑ +157% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $448.92 | ↑ +225% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $498.35 | ↑ +260% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $498.35 | ↑ +260% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $498.35 | ↑ +260% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $532.51 | ↑ +285% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $533.21 | ↑ +286% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $594.43 | ↑ +330% |
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Prolonged IV inf, req pump at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $538.70 – $538.70 |
| Ascension Seton Smithville (Ascension Seton) | Smithville | $102.60 | $222.91 – $270.78 |
| Dell Children's Medical Center (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $199.50 | $222.91 – $270.78 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $387.00 – $387.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $495.36 – $495.36 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $634.68 – $634.68 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $336.45 – $659.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $538.70 – $538.70 |