Glucose body fluid at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital

1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$94.50

Cash price

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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.

$270.00

Gross charge

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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.

$2.83 with Renaissance vs $270.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Renaissance Commercial|All Plans $2.83 ↓ -97%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STARKIDS $3.30 ↓ -97%
Wellpoint Medicaid|CHIP $3.30 ↓ -97%
TCHP Medicaid|STARKIDS $3.30 ↓ -97%
TCHP Medicaid|All Other Plans $3.30 ↓ -97%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $3.30 ↓ -97%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $3.37 ↓ -96%
UHC Medicaid|STARKIDS $3.37 ↓ -96%
UHC Medicaid|CHIP $3.37 ↓ -96%
BCBS Medicaid|All Plans $3.46 ↓ -96%
CHC Medicaid|All Other Plans $3.79 ↓ -96%
HUMANA Medicare|TRANSPLANT $3.93 ↓ -96%
SELECTCARE Medicare|All Plans $3.93 ↓ -96%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $3.93 ↓ -96%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|HMO $3.93 ↓ -96%
HUMANA Medicare|All Other Plans $3.93 ↓ -96%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|PPO $3.97 ↓ -96%
UHC-SecureHorizons Medicare|All Plans $4.01 ↓ -96%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $4.01 ↓ -96%
Amerivantage Medicare|All Plans $4.05 ↓ -96%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $4.21 ↓ -96%
DEVOTED Medicare|All Plans $4.21 ↓ -96%
KINDRED Medicare|All Plans $4.32 ↓ -95%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $4.42 ↓ -95%
TCHP Medicaid|STAR $4.42 ↓ -95%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $4.52 ↓ -95%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $4.85 ↓ -95%
CHC Medicaid|STAR $5.08 ↓ -95%
KelseyCare Commercial|Exchange $5.31 ↓ -94%
BCBS-TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $5.74 ↓ -94%
Superior Health Plan Commercial|All Plans $5.89 ↓ -94%
Community Health Choice Commercial|Exchange $5.89 ↓ -94%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $5.89 ↓ -94%
Community Health Choice Commercial|All Other Plans $5.89 ↓ -94%
Aetna Commercial|Exchange $6.05 ↓ -94%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $6.48 ↓ -93%
United Commercial|Charter $7.28 ↓ -92%
United Commercial|Exchange $7.28 ↓ -92%
United Commercial|HMO $7.28 ↓ -92%
United Commercial|PPO $7.28 ↓ -92%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Exchange $7.47 ↓ -92%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $9.09 ↓ -90%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $10.04 ↓ -89%
UHC Medicaid|STARPLUS $10.30 ↓ -89%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $10.30 ↓ -89%
NX Health Commercial|PPO $12.77 ↓ -86%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $12.81 ↓ -86%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $13.71 ↓ -85%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $17.21 ↓ -82%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $20.16 ↓ -79%
OPTUM Medicare|All Plans $72.90 ↓ -23%
TCHPCHIP Medicaid|HMO $94.50 ↑ +0%
OPTUM Medicaid|STAR $97.69 ↑ +3%
United Commercial|Optum $126.90 ↑ +34%
CHC Medicaid|CHIP $148.50 ↑ +57%
CHC Medicaid|HMO $148.50 ↑ +57%
TEXASTRUECHOICE Medicaid|CHIP $148.50 ↑ +57%
Aetna-Kelsey Care Commercial|HMO $159.30 ↑ +69%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $162.00 ↑ +71%
Humana Commercial|Transplant $175.50 ↑ +86%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $175.50 ↑ +86%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $175.50 ↑ +86%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $183.60 ↑ +94%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $189.00 ↑ +100%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $189.00 ↑ +100%
Interlink Commercial|Transplant $189.00 ↑ +100%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $202.50 ↑ +114%
OPTUM Medicaid|STARPLUS $223.08 ↑ +136%
USA Health Network Commercial|All Plans $229.50 ↑ +143%
MHealth Network Commercial|PPO $270.00 ↑ +186%

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