Brain image w/flow 4 + views at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$1,168.65
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.
$3,339.00
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.
$267.12 with TCHP vs $3,339.00 with MHealth Network — 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|STARKIDS | $267.12 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $267.12 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $304.73 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $304.73 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $304.73 | ↓ -74% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $310.82 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $310.82 | ↓ -73% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $310.82 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $319.97 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $350.44 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $357.95 | ↓ -69% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $388.18 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $408.34 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $417.48 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $437.52 | ↓ -63% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $445.47 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $453.04 | ↓ -61% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $469.28 | ↓ -60% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $539.14 | ↓ -54% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↓ -54% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $539.14 | ↓ -54% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $539.14 | ↓ -54% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $544.53 | ↓ -53% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $549.92 | ↓ -53% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $549.92 | ↓ -53% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $555.31 | ↓ -52% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $576.88 | ↓ -51% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $576.88 | ↓ -51% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $593.05 | ↓ -49% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $727.84 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $794.37 | ↓ -32% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $808.71 | ↓ -31% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $808.71 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $808.71 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $808.71 | ↓ -31% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $818.35 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $830.28 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $901.53 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $930.90 | ↓ -20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $950.76 | ↓ -19% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $950.76 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,045.71 | ↓ -11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,068.48 | ↓ -9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,168.65 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,168.65 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,208.06 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,368.99 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,569.33 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,723.00 | ↑ +47% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,752.20 | ↑ +50% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,836.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,836.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,836.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,970.01 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,003.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,170.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,170.35 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,170.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,270.52 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,337.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,337.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,337.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,504.25 | ↑ +114% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,544.00 | ↑ +118% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,758.69 | ↑ +136% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,827.00 | ↑ +142% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,827.00 | ↑ +142% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,838.15 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,339.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Brain image w/flow 4 + views at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,337.97 | $481.23 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,901.40 | $295.70 – $2,376.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,337.97 | $316.40 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,337.97 | $295.70 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,901.40 | $295.70 – $2,852.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |