Sedimentation rate erythrocyte automated at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$48.30
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.
$138.00
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.
$1.94 with Renaissance vs $138.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1.94 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $2.27 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2.27 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.27 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.32 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2.32 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2.32 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.38 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.61 | ↓ -95% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2.70 | ↓ -94% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -94% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $2.70 | ↓ -94% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -94% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $2.73 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $2.75 | ↓ -94% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $2.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $2.78 | ↓ -94% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $2.89 | ↓ -94% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $2.89 | ↓ -94% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3.04 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $3.04 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $3.11 | ↓ -94% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3.33 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $3.50 | ↓ -93% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $3.65 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $3.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4.05 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.05 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4.05 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4.05 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $4.16 | ↓ -91% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.46 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $5.00 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $5.00 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5.00 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.00 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $5.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $6.61 | ↓ -86% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7.08 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7.08 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $7.30 | ↓ -85% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $8.78 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $8.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9.97 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $11.83 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $13.85 | ↓ -71% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $37.26 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $48.30 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $49.93 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $64.86 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $75.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $75.90 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $75.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $81.42 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $82.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $89.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $89.70 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $89.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $93.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $96.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $96.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $96.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $103.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $114.02 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $117.30 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $138.00 | ↑ +186% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $144.47 | $2.43 – $10.40 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $67.06 | $2.27 – $83.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $49.63 | $3.96 – $74.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $61.15 | $2.27 – $76.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $67.06 | $2.27 – $83.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $49.63 | $2.43 – $74.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $49.63 | $2.27 – $74.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $61.15 | $2.27 – $91.73 |