Vein x-ray skull epidural at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$430.29
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.
$1,229.40
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.
$122.21 with TCHP vs $1,229.40 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 | $122.21 | ↓ -72% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $122.21 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $128.64 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $131.21 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $176.24 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $235.97 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $259.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $318.89 | ↓ -26% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $401.36 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $619.26 | ↑ +44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $619.26 | ↑ +44% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $619.26 | ↑ +44% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $619.26 | ↑ +44% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $631.65 | ↑ +47% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $631.65 | ↑ +47% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $637.84 | ↑ +48% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $662.61 | ↑ +54% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $662.61 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $725.35 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $737.64 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $799.11 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $799.11 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $836.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $860.58 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $860.58 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $889.02 | ↑ +107% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $903.92 | ↑ +110% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $920.54 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $922.05 | ↑ +114% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $928.89 | ↑ +116% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $928.89 | ↑ +116% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $928.89 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,229.40 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,229.40 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,229.40 | ↑ +186% |
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Vein x-ray skull epidural at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $10,405.98 | $126.07 – $1,109.70 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,006.40 | $128.64 – $1,556.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,980.52 | $407.66 – $2,970.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,079.54 | $128.64 – $2,599.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,006.40 | $128.64 – $1,556.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,980.52 | $137.64 – $2,970.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,980.52 | $128.64 – $2,970.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,079.54 | $128.64 – $3,119.31 |