I131 iodide cap, rx at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$24.85
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.
$71.00
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.
$16.68 with Renaissance vs $75.30 with NX Health — 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 | $16.68 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $18.46 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $19.17 | ↓ -23% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $19.64 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $22.55 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $23.17 | ↓ -7% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $23.17 | ↓ -7% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $23.17 | ↓ -7% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $23.17 | ↓ -7% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $23.17 | ↓ -7% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $23.40 | ↓ -6% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $23.63 | ↓ -5% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $23.63 | ↓ -5% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $23.87 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $24.14 | ↓ -3% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $24.79 | ↓ -0% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $24.79 | ↓ -0% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $24.85 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $25.45 | ↑ +2% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $25.49 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $25.69 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $26.98 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $26.98 | ↑ +9% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $31.28 | ↑ +26% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $32.95 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $33.37 | ↑ +34% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $34.76 | ↑ +40% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $34.76 | ↑ +40% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $34.76 | ↑ +40% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.76 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $35.68 | ↑ +44% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $39.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $39.05 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $39.05 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $42.60 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $43.86 | ↑ +76% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $46.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $46.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $46.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $49.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $49.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $49.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $53.25 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $55.04 | ↑ +121% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $58.67 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $60.35 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $67.24 | ↑ +171% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $71.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $71.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $71.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $71.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $75.30 | ↑ +203% |
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I131 iodide cap, rx at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $481.12 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $42.00 | $77.38 – $82.61 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $391.11 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $468.71 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $24.85 | $18.62 – $71.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $31.22 | $20.82 – $187.28 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $24.85 | $18.46 – $71.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $24.85 | $18.46 – $71.00 |