Pet CT whole body initial at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$4,384.45
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.
$12,527.00
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.
$751.62 with TCHP vs $6,263.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $751.62 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,000.00 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,007.18 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,340.00 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,387.61 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -67% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -67% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -67% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,489.35 | ↓ -66% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,504.78 | ↓ -66% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $1,504.78 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,504.78 | ↓ -66% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,534.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $1,563.22 | ↓ -64% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,563.22 | ↓ -64% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,563.82 | ↓ -64% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,563.82 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,563.82 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,879.05 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,995.73 | ↓ -54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $2,099.98 | ↓ -52% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,118.38 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,191.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,249.86 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,264.47 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $2,379.81 | ↓ -46% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,475.07 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,657.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $3,750.10 | ↓ -14% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,900.10 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $4,008.40 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,008.64 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $4,236.88 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $4,447.68 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $4,539.51 | ↑ +4% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,557.41 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $5,010.80 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $5,076.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $6,263.50 | ↑ +43% |
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Pet CT whole body initial at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,231.06 | $1,364.64 – $6,538.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $5,953.50 | $1,225.43 – $8,930.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $5,953.50 | $1,364.64 – $7,441.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,231.06 | $1,364.64 – $6,538.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $5,953.50 | $1,364.64 – $8,930.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $5,953.50 | $1,458.59 – $8,930.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $5,953.50 | $1,364.64 – $8,930.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $5,231.06 | $1,364.64 – $6,538.82 |