Warde copper 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

$39.38

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.

$112.50

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.

$9.90 with TCHP vs $84.38 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 $9.90 ↓ -75%
CHC Medicaid|All Plans $9.90 ↓ -75%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Plans $10.42 ↓ -74%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $10.63 ↓ -73%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $12.41 ↓ -68%
CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Plans $12.41 ↓ -68%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $12.41 ↓ -68%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $12.41 ↓ -68%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $12.66 ↓ -68%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $12.66 ↓ -68%
AMERIVANTAGE Medicare|All Plans $12.78 ↓ -68%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $13.28 ↓ -66%
DEVOTED Medicare|All Plans $13.28 ↓ -66%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $14.28 ↓ -64%
BCBS - TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $18.12 ↓ -54%
Ambetter Commercial|All Plans $18.61 ↓ -53%
Community Health Choice Commercial|Exchange $18.61 ↓ -53%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $18.62 ↓ -53%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $20.48 ↓ -48%
United Commercial|Charter $22.98 ↓ -42%
United Commercial|HMO $22.98 ↓ -42%
United Commercial|Exchange $22.98 ↓ -42%
United Commercial|PPO $22.98 ↓ -42%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Exchange $23.58 ↓ -40%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $29.74 ↓ -24%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $32.51 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $32.82 ↓ -17%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $40.46 ↑ +3%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $44.87 ↑ +14%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $54.36 ↑ +38%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $63.66 ↑ +62%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $67.50 ↑ +71%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $73.13 ↑ +86%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $73.13 ↑ +86%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $76.50 ↑ +94%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $78.75 ↑ +100%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $78.75 ↑ +100%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $84.38 ↑ +114%

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