Triglycerides at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center

4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$75.60

Cash price

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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.

$216.00

Gross charge

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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.

$4.58 with TCHP vs $138.38 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
TCHP Medicaid|All Plans $4.58 ↓ -94%
CHC Medicaid|All Plans $4.58 ↓ -94%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Plans $4.82 ↓ -94%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $4.92 ↓ -93%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $5.74 ↓ -92%
CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Plans $5.74 ↓ -92%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $5.74 ↓ -92%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $5.74 ↓ -92%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $5.85 ↓ -92%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $5.85 ↓ -92%
AMERIVANTAGE Medicare|All Plans $5.91 ↓ -92%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $6.14 ↓ -92%
DEVOTED Medicare|All Plans $6.14 ↓ -92%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $6.60 ↓ -91%
BCBS - TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $8.38 ↓ -89%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $8.61 ↓ -89%
Ambetter Commercial|All Plans $8.61 ↓ -89%
Community Health Choice Commercial|Exchange $8.61 ↓ -89%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $9.47 ↓ -87%
United Commercial|Charter $10.64 ↓ -86%
United Commercial|HMO $10.64 ↓ -86%
United Commercial|Exchange $10.64 ↓ -86%
United Commercial|PPO $10.64 ↓ -86%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Exchange $10.91 ↓ -86%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $14.04 ↓ -81%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $15.04 ↓ -80%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $15.49 ↓ -80%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $18.71 ↓ -75%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $21.19 ↓ -72%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $25.14 ↓ -67%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $29.45 ↓ -61%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $110.70 ↑ +46%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $119.93 ↑ +59%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $119.93 ↑ +59%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $125.46 ↑ +66%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $129.15 ↑ +71%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $129.15 ↑ +71%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $138.38 ↑ +83%

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