Removal cerumen impacted (both sides) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$68.99
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.
$197.10
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.
$13.11 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 | $13.11 | ↓ -81% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.11 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.80 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.08 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $18.91 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $41.26 | ↓ -40% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $43.05 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $52.81 | ↓ -23% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -14% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -14% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -14% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $60.69 | ↓ -12% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $60.69 | ↓ -12% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $61.28 | ↓ -11% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↓ -8% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $79.76 | ↑ +16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↑ +29% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $89.25 | ↑ +29% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↑ +29% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $93.09 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $94.62 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $105.62 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $118.26 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $128.12 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $128.12 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $128.12 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $134.03 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $137.97 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $137.97 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↑ +103% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $147.83 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $149.80 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↑ +123% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +461% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +1070% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +1309% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +2329% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +3422% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +3422% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +3486% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +3885% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +3885% |
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Removal cerumen impacted (both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $95.72 – $95.72 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $296.48 | $68.76 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $196.31 | $55.62 – $245.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $124.01 | $25.53 – $186.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $210.65 | $42.13 – $263.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $196.31 | $52.35 – $245.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $124.01 | $39.81 – $186.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $124.01 | $64.07 – $186.02 |