Smear wet mount at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$88.90
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.
$254.00
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.
$4.65 with TCHP vs $118.80 with MultiPlan — 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 | $4.65 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.65 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.89 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.99 | ↓ -94% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.94 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $5.94 | ↓ -93% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $5.99 | ↓ -93% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $6.23 | ↓ -93% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $6.23 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $6.70 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $8.50 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8.73 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $8.73 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.73 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8.73 | ↓ -90% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $8.73 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $8.73 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8.73 | ↓ -90% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.60 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $11.06 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $14.04 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $15.49 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $18.97 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.19 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $25.49 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $29.86 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $93.46 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $95.04 | ↑ +7% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $102.96 | ↑ +16% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $102.96 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $107.72 | ↑ +21% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $110.88 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $110.88 | ↑ +25% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $118.80 | ↑ +34% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $4.79 – $23.69 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $129.55 | $5.24 – $22.41 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $75.59 | $4.89 – $94.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $68.63 | $8.53 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $63.11 | $4.89 – $78.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $75.59 | $4.89 – $94.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $68.63 | $5.23 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $68.63 | $4.89 – $102.94 |