Bln 1.2 mono emrg 15x1.2 at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$8,530.55
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.
$24,373.00
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.
$0.27 with OPTUM vs $50,356.00 with BCBS-TX — 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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| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $0.35 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $0.37 | ↓ -100% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.41 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $0.47 | ↓ -100% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $0.55 | ↓ -100% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $0.55 | ↓ -100% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $0.55 | ↓ -100% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $0.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $0.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $0.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $0.65 | ↓ -100% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $0.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $0.70 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $0.70 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $0.72 | ↓ -100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $0.75 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $0.83 | ↓ -100% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $0.85 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1.00 | ↓ -100% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1.00 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $40,285.00 | ↑ +372% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $42,032.00 | ↑ +393% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $50,356.00 | ↑ +490% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $50,356.00 | ↑ +490% |
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Bln 1.2 mono emrg 15x1.2 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $8,124.20 | $92.61 – $311.91 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $8,530.55 | $0.27 – $19,766.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $14,751.45 | $3.44 – $187.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $2,961.00 | $14.44 – $210.34 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $8,530.55 | $0.27 – $40,285.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $14,751.45 | $13.23 – $655.90 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $8,530.55 | $0.27 – $40,285.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $1,722.11 | $41.58 – $138.60 |