Cutter lead at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$6,829.20
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.
$19,512.00
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.
$29.49 with OPTUM vs $5,644.80 with Healthsmart — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $29.49 | ↓ -100% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $38.22 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $39.51 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $51.33 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $60.06 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $60.06 | ↓ -99% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $60.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $65.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $70.98 | ↓ -99% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $70.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $70.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $76.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $76.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $76.44 | ↓ -99% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $81.90 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $90.23 | ↓ -99% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $92.82 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -99% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $109.20 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1,646.40 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,724.80 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,881.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,960.00 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,038.40 | ↓ -70% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,038.40 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,116.80 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,195.20 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,273.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,273.60 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,352.00 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.40 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.40 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,900.80 | ↓ -58% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,214.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $3,292.80 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $3,292.80 | ↓ -52% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $4,704.00 | ↓ -31% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,096.00 | ↓ -25% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $5,096.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $5,644.80 | ↓ -17% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Cutter lead at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $17,876.25 | not published |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $803.73 | $100.00 – $1,722.27 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $6,829.20 | $29.49 – $5,096.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $2,205.00 | $32.75 – $404.60 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $905.79 | $100.00 – $3,175.88 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $6,829.20 | $29.49 – $5,096.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $2,205.00 | $125.93 – $1,416.10 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $6,829.20 | $29.49 – $5,096.00 |