Unlisted surgical path px at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$14.81
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.
$42.30
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.
$24.96 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $115.47 with Cigna — 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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| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $24.96 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $25.38 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $27.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $27.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $28.77 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $29.61 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $29.61 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $31.73 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $42.30 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $42.30 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $42.30 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $42.30 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $42.30 | ↑ +186% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $53.52 | ↑ +261% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $53.52 | ↑ +261% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $53.52 | ↑ +261% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $53.52 | ↑ +261% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $54.59 | ↑ +269% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $54.59 | ↑ +269% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $55.13 | ↑ +272% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $57.27 | ↑ +287% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $57.27 | ↑ +287% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $67.05 | ↑ +353% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $67.05 | ↑ +353% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $67.05 | ↑ +353% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $67.05 | ↑ +353% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $76.54 | ↑ +417% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $80.28 | ↑ +442% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $80.28 | ↑ +442% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $80.28 | ↑ +442% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $83.09 | ↑ +461% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $84.45 | ↑ +470% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $115.47 | ↑ +680% |
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Unlisted surgical path px at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $49.76 – $141.11 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $682.26 | $10.01 – $104.70 |
| Ascension Seton Edgar B. Davis (Ascension Seton) | Luling | $97.92 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Ascension Seton Highland Lakes (Ascension Seton) | Burnet | $97.92 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Ascension Seton Smithville (Ascension Seton) | Smithville | $87.48 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Dell Children's Medical Center (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $170.10 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $104.58 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $190.46 – $190.46 |