Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$3,036.95
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.
$8,677.00
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.
$446.27 with TCHP vs $8,677.00 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $446.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $446.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $446.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $446.27 | ↓ -85% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $446.27 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $455.20 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $455.20 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $455.20 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $468.58 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $472.88 | ↓ -84% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $513.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $598.00 | ↓ -80% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $598.00 | ↓ -80% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $602.28 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $605.29 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $611.39 | ↓ -80% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $687.26 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $914.24 | ↓ -70% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↓ -69% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $958.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,084.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,120.29 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,210.58 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,345.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,345.00 | ↓ -56% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,392.36 | ↓ -54% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,392.36 | ↓ -54% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,571.52 | ↓ -48% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -48% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -48% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↓ -47% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -45% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↓ -45% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,711.56 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↓ -32% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,100.55 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,303.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,342.79 | ↓ -23% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,351.61 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,396.18 | ↓ -21% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,036.95 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,139.34 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,400.00 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,078.19 | ↑ +34% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,487.00 | ↑ +48% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $4,487.00 | ↑ +48% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,772.35 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,772.35 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,772.35 | ↑ +57% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,056.87 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,206.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $5,640.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $5,640.05 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,640.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,900.36 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,073.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,073.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,073.90 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,507.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,594.52 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,168.94 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $7,375.45 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $8,677.00 | ↑ +186% |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,186.53 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,384.86 | $71.00 – $5,077.29 |
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