Heparin, porcine (pf) 10 unit/ml flush (wrapper) at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$28.84
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.
$82.38
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.
$0.03 with BCBS-TX vs $54.75 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 |
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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $0.03 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $0.03 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $0.04 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $0.04 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $0.04 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.04 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $0.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $12.05 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $14.24 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14.24 | ↓ -51% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $14.79 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $17.52 | ↓ -39% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.07 | ↓ -37% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $19.17 | ↓ -34% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $19.81 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $25.74 | ↓ -11% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $26.28 | ↓ -9% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $26.28 | ↓ -9% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.83 | ↓ -7% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $30.12 | ↑ +4% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $30.12 | ↑ +4% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $30.12 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $32.85 | ↑ +14% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $32.85 | ↑ +14% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $35.59 | ↑ +23% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $35.59 | ↑ +23% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $35.59 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $38.33 | ↑ +33% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $38.33 | ↑ +33% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $38.33 | ↑ +33% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $38.33 | ↑ +33% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $38.33 | ↑ +33% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $39.42 | ↑ +37% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $41.07 | ↑ +42% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $45.24 | ↑ +57% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $46.54 | ↑ +61% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $54.75 | ↑ +90% |
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Heparin, porcine (pf) 10 unit/ml flush (wrapper) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $30.12 | $0.12 – $0.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $65.44 | $0.02 – $2.05 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $56.70 | $0.07 – $0.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $32.05 | $0.02 – $2.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $61.74 | $0.02 – $2.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $61.65 | $0.02 – $2.05 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $28.84 | $0.03 – $54.75 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $281.97 | $0.02 – $35.06 |