Venipuncture >= 3 years diagnostic/therapeutic (not to be used for routine venipuncture) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$29.93
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.
$85.50
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.
$5.69 with TCHP vs $2,430.00 with Humana — 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 | $5.69 | ↓ -81% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.69 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.99 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6.11 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $8.20 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $14.08 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $15.54 | ↓ -48% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $18.68 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.25 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $51.30 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $55.58 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $55.58 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $55.58 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $58.14 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $59.85 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $59.85 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $64.13 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $64.98 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $661.00 | ↑ +2108% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $976.00 | ↑ +3161% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,085.00 | ↑ +3525% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,085.00 | ↑ +3525% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +8019% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +8019% |
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Venipuncture >= 3 years diagnostic/therapeutic (not to be used for routine venipuncture) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $25.76 – $25.76 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,385.30 | $392.50 – $1,962.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,944.23 | $7.62 – $55.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,717.67 | $12.00 – $2,147.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,385.30 | $369.41 – $1,962.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,944.23 | $11.89 – $85.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,944.23 | $8.00 – $55.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,717.67 | $12.00 – $2,576.51 |