Aluminum - quest at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$30.10
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.
$86.00
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.
$18.35 with Renaissance vs $92.23 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $18.35 | ↓ -39% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $21.40 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $21.40 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $21.40 | ↓ -29% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $21.40 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $21.40 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $21.83 | ↓ -27% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $21.83 | ↓ -27% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $21.83 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.47 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $23.22 | ↓ -23% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $24.61 | ↓ -18% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $25.48 | ↓ -15% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $25.48 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $25.48 | ↓ -15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $25.48 | ↓ -15% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $25.48 | ↓ -15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $25.73 | ↓ -15% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $25.99 | ↓ -14% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $25.99 | ↓ -14% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $26.24 | ↓ -13% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $27.26 | ↓ -9% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $27.26 | ↓ -9% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $28.03 | ↓ -7% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $28.68 | ↓ -5% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $28.68 | ↓ -5% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $29.32 | ↓ -3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $30.10 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $31.12 | ↑ +3% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $31.46 | ↑ +5% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $32.96 | ↑ +10% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $34.40 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $37.20 | ↑ +24% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38.22 | ↑ +27% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $38.22 | ↑ +27% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $38.22 | ↑ +27% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $38.22 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $39.24 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $40.42 | ↑ +34% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $42.04 | ↑ +40% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $47.19 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $47.19 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $47.19 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $47.19 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $47.30 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $47.30 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $47.30 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $48.41 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $51.60 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $55.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $55.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $55.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $58.48 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $60.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $60.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $60.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $61.13 | ↑ +103% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $64.50 | ↑ +114% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $66.77 | ↑ +122% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $66.77 | ↑ +122% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $67.46 | ↑ +124% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $71.06 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $73.10 | ↑ +143% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $82.81 | ↑ +175% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $83.06 | ↑ +176% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $86.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $86.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $86.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $92.23 | ↑ +206% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $123.83 | $10.00 – $154.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $121.48 | $12.00 – $182.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $127.37 | $12.00 – $159.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $123.83 | $10.00 – $154.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $121.48 | $12.00 – $182.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $121.48 | $8.00 – $182.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $127.37 | $12.00 – $191.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $123.83 | $10.00 – $154.79 |