Tissue culture skin/biopsy at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$231.53
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.
$661.50
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.
$112.30 with TCHP vs $661.50 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $112.30 | ↓ -51% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $112.30 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $118.21 | ↓ -49% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $120.57 | ↓ -48% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $140.73 | ↓ -39% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $140.73 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $140.73 | ↓ -39% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $140.73 | ↓ -39% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $143.54 | ↓ -38% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $143.54 | ↓ -38% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $144.95 | ↓ -37% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $150.58 | ↓ -35% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $150.58 | ↓ -35% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $161.95 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $205.47 | ↓ -11% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $211.09 | ↓ -9% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $211.09 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $211.10 | ↓ -9% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $232.20 | ↑ +0% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $260.61 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $260.61 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $260.61 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $260.61 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $267.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $336.24 | ↑ +45% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $368.82 | ↑ +59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $371.02 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $390.29 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $396.90 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $429.98 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $429.98 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $449.82 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $458.78 | ↑ +98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $463.05 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $463.05 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $496.13 | ↑ +114% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $507.26 | ↑ +119% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $616.40 | ↑ +166% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $661.50 | ↑ +186% |
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Tissue culture skin/biopsy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $115.85 – $578.49 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $687.36 | $35.00 – $859.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $645.58 | $36.00 – $968.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $626.77 | $36.00 – $783.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $687.36 | $35.00 – $859.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $645.58 | $36.00 – $968.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $645.58 | $26.00 – $968.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $626.77 | $36.00 – $940.16 |