Potassium 24 hour urine 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

$50.40

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.

$144.00

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.

$3.41 with Renaissance vs $144.00 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 $3.41 ↓ -93%
TCHP Medicaid|STARKIDS $3.97 ↓ -92%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STARKIDS $3.97 ↓ -92%
Wellpoint Medicaid|CHIP $3.97 ↓ -92%
TCHP Medicaid|All Other Plans $3.97 ↓ -92%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $3.97 ↓ -92%
UHC Medicaid|STARKIDS $4.05 ↓ -92%
UHC Medicaid|CHIP $4.05 ↓ -92%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $4.05 ↓ -92%
BCBS Medicaid|All Plans $4.17 ↓ -92%
CHC Medicaid|All Other Plans $4.57 ↓ -91%
HUMANA Medicare|TRANSPLANT $4.73 ↓ -91%
SELECTCARE Medicare|All Plans $4.73 ↓ -91%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $4.73 ↓ -91%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|HMO $4.73 ↓ -91%
HUMANA Medicare|All Other Plans $4.73 ↓ -91%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|PPO $4.78 ↓ -91%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $4.82 ↓ -90%
UHC-SecureHorizons Medicare|All Plans $4.82 ↓ -90%
Amerivantage Medicare|All Plans $4.87 ↓ -90%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $5.06 ↓ -90%
DEVOTED Medicare|All Plans $5.06 ↓ -90%
KINDRED Medicare|All Plans $5.20 ↓ -90%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $5.32 ↓ -89%
TCHP Medicaid|STAR $5.32 ↓ -89%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $5.32 ↓ -89%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $5.44 ↓ -89%
CHC Medicaid|STAR $6.11 ↓ -88%
KelseyCare Commercial|Exchange $6.39 ↓ -87%
BCBS-TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $6.91 ↓ -86%
Superior Health Plan Commercial|All Plans $7.10 ↓ -86%
Community Health Choice Commercial|Exchange $7.10 ↓ -86%
Community Health Choice Commercial|All Other Plans $7.10 ↓ -86%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $7.10 ↓ -86%
Aetna Commercial|Exchange $7.28 ↓ -86%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $7.80 ↓ -85%
United Commercial|PPO $7.98 ↓ -84%
United Commercial|Exchange $7.98 ↓ -84%
United Commercial|HMO $7.98 ↓ -84%
United Commercial|Charter $7.98 ↓ -84%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Exchange $8.99 ↓ -82%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $11.58 ↓ -77%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $12.39 ↓ -75%
UHC Medicaid|STARPLUS $12.39 ↓ -75%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $12.77 ↓ -75%
NX Health Commercial|PPO $15.37 ↓ -70%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $15.42 ↓ -69%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $17.45 ↓ -65%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $20.72 ↓ -59%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $24.26 ↓ -52%
OPTUM Medicare|All Plans $38.88 ↓ -23%
TCHPCHIP Medicaid|HMO $50.40 ↑ +0%
OPTUM Medicaid|STAR $52.10 ↑ +3%
United Commercial|Optum $67.68 ↑ +34%
CHC Medicaid|CHIP $79.20 ↑ +57%
CHC Medicaid|HMO $79.20 ↑ +57%
TEXASTRUECHOICE Medicaid|CHIP $79.20 ↑ +57%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $86.40 ↑ +71%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $93.60 ↑ +86%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $93.60 ↑ +86%
Humana Commercial|Transplant $93.60 ↑ +86%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $97.92 ↑ +94%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $100.80 ↑ +100%
Interlink Commercial|Transplant $100.80 ↑ +100%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $100.80 ↑ +100%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $108.00 ↑ +114%
OPTUM Medicaid|STARPLUS $118.98 ↑ +136%
USA Health Network Commercial|All Plans $122.40 ↑ +143%
MHealth Network Commercial|PPO $144.00 ↑ +186%

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