Collection blood specimen from completely implantable venous access device at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$140.35
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.
$401.00
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.
$32.08 with TCHP vs $2,749.00 with United — 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|All Other Plans | $32.08 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $32.08 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $32.73 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $42.99 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $43.95 | ↓ -69% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $92.96 | ↓ -34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $100.09 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $100.09 | ↓ -29% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $103.28 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $108.27 | ↓ -23% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $129.11 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -8% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $129.11 | ↓ -8% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -8% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -8% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $130.40 | ↓ -7% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $131.69 | ↓ -6% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $131.69 | ↓ -6% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $132.98 | ↓ -5% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -2% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -0% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $140.35 | ↑ +0% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $142.02 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $145.09 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $159.18 | ↑ +13% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $174.30 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $188.47 | ↑ +34% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $188.56 | ↑ +34% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↑ +38% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $193.67 | ↑ +38% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↑ +38% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $193.67 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $198.83 | ↑ +42% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $207.16 | ↑ +48% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $220.55 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $220.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $220.55 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $240.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $240.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $260.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $260.65 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $260.65 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $260.65 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $260.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $280.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $280.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $280.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $300.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $331.31 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $340.85 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $355.44 | ↑ +153% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +176% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $401.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $401.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $401.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $419.61 | ↑ +199% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +1094% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +1613% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +1631% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +1631% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +1663% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1859% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1859% |
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Collection blood specimen from completely implantable venous access device at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $270.06 | $419.77 – $419.77 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $202.31 | $10.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $186.73 | $12.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $181.55 | $12.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $202.31 | $10.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $186.73 | $12.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $186.73 | $8.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $181.55 | $12.00 – $316.45 |