Ultrasound chest at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$530.67
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.
$1,516.20
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.
$54.28 with TCHP vs $1,152.32 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $54.28 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $54.28 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $57.14 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $58.28 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $78.28 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $96.85 | ↓ -82% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $106.67 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -80% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -80% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -79% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -79% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $130.87 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $158.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $159.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $159.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.77 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $163.64 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $178.28 | ↓ -66% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $182.06 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $286.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $330.99 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $336.24 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $336.60 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $362.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $364.65 | ↓ -31% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $364.65 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $377.71 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $381.48 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $392.70 | ↓ -26% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $392.70 | ↓ -26% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $420.75 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $533.00 | ↑ +0% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $592.00 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $592.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,031.02 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,152.32 | ↑ +117% |
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Ultrasound chest at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $56.00 – $197.26 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $956.71 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $567.07 | $57.14 – $708.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $444.12 | $91.41 – $666.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $444.12 | $57.14 – $555.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $567.07 | $57.14 – $708.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $444.12 | $61.14 – $666.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $444.12 | $57.14 – $666.18 |