Sodium chloride 0.9 % intravenous solution at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$9.56
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.
$27.30
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.
$3.57 with United vs $27.30 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3.57 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $5.38 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5.38 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.38 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7.58 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $7.99 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7.99 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $16.24 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $16.38 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $17.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $17.75 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $18.33 | ↑ +92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $19.11 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $19.11 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $20.48 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $27.30 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $27.30 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $27.30 | ↑ +186% |
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Sodium chloride 0.9 % intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $2.47 – $29.20 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $28.66 | $57.37 – $57.37 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $45.90 | $2.40 – $26.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $69.85 | $2.40 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $63.36 | $2.40 – $37.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $45.90 | $2.40 – $26.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $69.85 | $2.40 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $69.85 | $2.40 – $45.00 |