Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,722.65
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.
$7,779.00
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.
$423.96 with TCHP vs $5,912.04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $423.96 | ↓ -84% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $423.96 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $446.27 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $455.20 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $472.88 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $605.29 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $611.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $914.24 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,084.48 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,210.58 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,345.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,345.00 | ↓ -51% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,392.36 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -43% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -43% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -43% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -43% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -42% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -42% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↓ -41% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -39% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,303.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↓ -14% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,333.94 | ↓ -14% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↓ -14% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,351.61 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,400.00 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +39% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,487.00 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,667.40 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,056.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $5,056.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,289.72 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $5,445.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,445.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,834.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,912.04 | ↑ +117% |
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Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $437.34 – $1,097.09 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,186.53 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,384.86 | $71.00 – $4,231.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,186.53 | $85.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,186.53 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,384.86 | $71.00 – $5,077.29 |