Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$37.10
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.
$106.00
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.
$3.84 with TCHP vs $48.75 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 | $3.84 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.84 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.04 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.12 | ↓ -89% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -87% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -87% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $4.91 | ↓ -87% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.91 | ↓ -87% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $4.95 | ↓ -87% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5.15 | ↓ -86% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $5.15 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $5.53 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $7.02 | ↓ -81% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $7.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $7.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $7.22 | ↓ -81% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.94 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8.91 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.91 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8.91 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $8.91 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $9.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $11.58 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.60 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $12.77 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $15.68 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $17.45 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $21.07 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $24.68 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $39.00 | ↑ +5% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $42.25 | ↑ +14% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $42.25 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $44.20 | ↑ +19% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $45.50 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $45.50 | ↑ +23% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $48.75 | ↑ +31% |
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Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $108.83 | $4.33 – $18.52 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $62.12 | $4.04 – $77.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $58.28 | $7.05 – $87.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $62.87 | $4.04 – $78.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $62.12 | $4.04 – $77.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $58.28 | $4.32 – $87.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $58.28 | $4.04 – $87.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $62.87 | $4.04 – $94.30 |