Cath left heart/lv gram at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital
16655 Southwest Freeway, Sugar Land, TX · Houstonmethodist · · NPI 1497871628
$8,192.00
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.
$16,384.00
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.
$3,256.70 with Bcbs vs $17,455.00 with Unitedhealthcare — 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 | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,256.70 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo | $3,305.56 | ↓ -60% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,321.84 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Texas Healthspring Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo | $3,354.41 | ↓ -59% |
| Molina Healthcare | Advantage Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,419.54 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Choice | D-Snp Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,484.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Procare Advantage | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,582.38 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Choice | Silver & Gold Exchange | $5,308.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Optum Health | Transplant Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6,350.57 | ↓ -22% |
| Molina Healthcare | Exchange | $6,513.41 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | New Business Discount Other Commercial Plan | $7,316.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Hmo/Pos/Ppo | $7,542.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Bcbs | All Commercial Plans | $8,407.35 | ↑ +3% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $17,455.00 | ↑ +113% |
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Cath left heart/lv gram at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $4,753.35 | $1,086.48 – $13,581.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $11,201.25 | $3,093.86 – $14,001.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $12,231.53 | $2,517.66 – $18,347.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $9,848.25 | $1,969.65 – $17,181.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $11,201.25 | $2,987.00 – $17,181.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $12,231.53 | $3,093.86 – $18,347.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $12,231.53 | $6,319.63 – $18,347.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $9,848.25 | $3,093.86 – $14,772.38 |