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1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$139.65
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.
$399.00
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.
$5.82 with Renaissance vs $399.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -96% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $6.79 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $6.79 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $6.79 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6.79 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6.79 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $6.93 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $6.93 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6.93 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.13 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.81 | ↓ -94% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $8.16 | ↓ -94% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.24 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $8.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $8.32 | ↓ -94% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $8.65 | ↓ -94% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.65 | ↓ -94% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $9.10 | ↓ -93% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $9.10 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $9.30 | ↓ -93% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $9.97 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $10.46 | ↓ -93% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $10.91 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $11.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $12.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $12.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $12.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.33 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $14.96 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $14.96 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14.96 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $14.96 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $15.35 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $19.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $20.97 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $21.18 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $21.18 | ↓ -85% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $26.26 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $26.34 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $28.67 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $35.39 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $41.45 | ↓ -70% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $107.73 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $139.65 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $144.36 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $187.53 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $219.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $219.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $219.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $239.40 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $259.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $259.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $259.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $271.32 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $279.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $279.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $279.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $299.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $329.66 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $339.15 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $399.00 | ↑ +186% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $153.26 | $7.27 – $31.11 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $88.15 | $6.79 – $90.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $92.93 | $11.84 – $103.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $89.14 | $6.79 – $86.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $88.15 | $6.79 – $90.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $92.93 | $7.27 – $103.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $92.93 | $6.79 – $103.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $89.14 | $6.79 – $103.45 |