X-ray exam of sinuses at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$66.73
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.
$190.65
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.
$30.79 with TCHP vs $230.00 with United — 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 | $30.79 | ↓ -54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $30.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $32.41 | ↓ -51% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $33.06 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $44.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $75.75 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $83.42 | ↑ +25% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↑ +32% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↑ +32% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↑ +32% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $89.95 | ↑ +35% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $89.95 | ↑ +35% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $90.84 | ↑ +36% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $94.36 | ↑ +41% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $94.36 | ↑ +41% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $101.12 | ↑ +52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $102.38 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $112.49 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $112.53 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $114.39 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $116.52 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $123.93 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $123.93 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $129.65 | ↑ +94% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $132.28 | ↑ +98% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $132.28 | ↑ +98% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $132.29 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $133.46 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $133.46 | ↑ +100% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $135.27 | ↑ +103% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↑ +110% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $142.99 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $190.65 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $190.65 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $190.65 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↑ +213% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↑ +245% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↑ +245% |
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X-ray exam of sinuses at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $1,374.57 | $31.76 – $143.16 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $830.26 | $307.27 – $307.27 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $151.82 | $32.41 – $225.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $188.79 | $38.86 – $283.19 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $249.35 | $32.41 – $311.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $151.82 | $32.41 – $225.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $188.79 | $34.68 – $283.19 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $188.79 | $32.41 – $283.19 |