Ghs insertion of needle - bone at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$339.15
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.
$969.00
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.
$77.52 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 |
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| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $77.52 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $77.52 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $77.52 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $77.52 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $77.52 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $77.52 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $79.08 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $79.08 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $79.08 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $81.40 | ↓ -76% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $103.88 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $103.88 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $103.88 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $106.21 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -55% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $241.87 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $241.87 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $261.63 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $272.69 | ↓ -20% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $287.78 | ↓ -15% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $324.47 | ↓ -4% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $339.15 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $349.05 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $350.59 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +14% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $399.69 | ↑ +18% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +18% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +18% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $399.69 | ↑ +18% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $403.69 | ↑ +19% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $407.68 | ↑ +20% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $407.68 | ↑ +20% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $411.68 | ↑ +21% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +26% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +26% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $439.66 | ↑ +30% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $453.87 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $455.43 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $527.21 | ↑ +55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $532.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $532.95 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $532.95 | ↑ +57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $539.58 | ↑ +59% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $581.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $581.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $599.53 | ↑ +77% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $599.53 | ↑ +77% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $599.53 | ↑ +77% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $599.53 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $615.52 | ↑ +81% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $625.37 | ↑ +84% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $629.85 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $629.85 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $629.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $629.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $629.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $658.92 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $678.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $678.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $678.30 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $698.09 | ↑ +106% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $726.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $736.44 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $800.59 | ↑ +136% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +138% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $823.65 | ↑ +143% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +178% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $969.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +187% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,298.99 | ↑ +283% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +394% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +616% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +616% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +629% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +711% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +711% |
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