Repair of body cast at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$69.62
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.
$198.90
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.
$42.50 with BCBS-TX vs $4,000.00 with Humana — 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $42.50 | ↓ -39% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $43.92 | ↓ -37% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $43.92 | ↓ -37% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $46.23 | ↓ -34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $47.15 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $54.39 | ↓ -22% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $63.34 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $82.16 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $97.46 | ↑ +40% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $108.79 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $119.34 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $129.29 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $129.29 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $129.29 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $135.26 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $139.23 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $139.23 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↑ +101% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $144.24 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $149.18 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $151.17 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↑ +121% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +127% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +127% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +127% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +127% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $161.21 | ↑ +132% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $161.21 | ↑ +132% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $162.79 | ↑ +134% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $169.11 | ↑ +143% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $169.11 | ↑ +143% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $236.26 | ↑ +239% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $237.07 | ↑ +241% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $237.07 | ↑ +241% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $237.08 | ↑ +241% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +456% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +2307% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +3454% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +3849% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +3849% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +5645% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +5645% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $45.31 – $409.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $214.25 | $44.10 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $214.25 | $46.23 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $214.25 | $49.47 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $214.25 | $46.23 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $214.25 | $46.23 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $214.25 | $46.23 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $214.25 | $46.23 – $390.34 |