Change of windpipe airway 31502 at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$138.25
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.
$395.00
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.
$87.58 with Wellpoint vs $5,160.00 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 |
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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $87.58 | ↓ -37% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $87.58 | ↓ -37% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $87.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $87.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $87.58 | ↓ -37% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $89.33 | ↓ -35% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $89.33 | ↓ -35% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $89.33 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $91.96 | ↓ -33% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $100.72 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $106.65 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $117.36 | ↓ -15% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $117.36 | ↓ -15% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $119.98 | ↓ -13% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $134.87 | ↓ -2% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $138.25 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $142.92 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $152.73 | ↑ +10% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $167.47 | ↑ +21% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $175.50 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $185.65 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $195.49 | ↑ +41% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $217.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $217.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $217.25 | ↑ +57% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +68% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +68% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $232.60 | ↑ +68% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $232.60 | ↑ +68% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $234.93 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $237.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $237.00 | ↑ +71% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $237.25 | ↑ +72% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $237.25 | ↑ +72% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $239.58 | ↑ +73% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $248.88 | ↑ +80% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $248.88 | ↑ +80% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $255.86 | ↑ +85% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $256.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $256.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $256.75 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $256.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $256.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $268.60 | ↑ +94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $273.25 | ↑ +98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $273.25 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $276.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $276.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $276.50 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $295.28 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $296.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $300.20 | ↑ +117% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $314.01 | ↑ +127% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $326.35 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $335.75 | ↑ +143% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $348.90 | ↑ +152% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $348.90 | ↑ +152% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $348.90 | ↑ +152% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $348.90 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $350.26 | ↑ +153% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $353.79 | ↑ +156% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $358.20 | ↑ +159% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $390.99 | ↑ +183% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $395.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $755.95 | ↑ +447% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +484% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +603% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +1112% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +1248% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +1386% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +1639% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +1658% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +1658% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +1690% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1888% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1888% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +3632% |
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Change of windpipe airway 31502 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $583.92 | $87.58 – $729.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $422.65 | $71.00 – $633.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $499.54 | $71.00 – $624.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $583.92 | $87.58 – $729.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $422.65 | $85.00 – $633.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $422.65 | $87.58 – $633.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $499.54 | $71.00 – $749.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $583.92 | $87.58 – $729.90 |