Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$2,250.57
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.
$6,430.20
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.
$274.29 with BCBS-TX vs $3,215.10 with Health First — 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $274.29 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $304.77 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $319.80 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $338.78 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $384.85 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $428.21 | ↓ -81% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -76% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -76% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -76% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -76% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -75% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $576.65 | ↓ -74% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -74% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -74% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $796.33 | ↓ -65% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $808.04 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $845.75 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $851.24 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $964.53 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,224.30 | ↓ -46% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,273.27 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,057.67 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,186.27 | ↓ -3% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $3,215.10 | ↑ +43% |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,328.88 | $521.71 – $521.71 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,589.56 | $416.02 – $3,236.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,884.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,236.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,589.56 | $317.09 – $3,236.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,589.56 | $500.03 – $3,884.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,589.56 | $1,337.94 – $3,884.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,884.34 |