Methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg intravenous solution at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$56.23
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.
$160.65
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.
$3.00 with Aetna vs $31.13 with CHC — 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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| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.59 | ↓ -88% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $7.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $7.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $9.98 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.97 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $12.97 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.37 | ↓ -74% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $31.13 | ↓ -45% |
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Methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $442.13 | $0.91 – $0.91 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $71.30 | $5.67 – $9.45 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $96.23 | $13.38 – $60.80 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $145.39 | $5.46 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $96.23 | $13.38 – $60.80 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $96.23 | $13.38 – $60.80 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $96.23 | $13.38 – $60.80 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $96.23 | $13.38 – $60.80 |