Smear gram stain at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$147.00
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.
$420.00
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.
$3.07 with Renaissance vs $420.00 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 | $3.07 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $3.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.59 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.59 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3.66 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.66 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.66 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.77 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.13 | ↓ -97% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -97% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -97% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $4.27 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $4.27 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $4.31 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.36 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $4.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $4.40 | ↓ -97% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -97% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -97% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $4.70 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $4.81 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $4.81 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $4.92 | ↓ -97% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5.27 | ↓ -96% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $5.53 | ↓ -96% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $5.76 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $6.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $6.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $6.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $6.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $6.58 | ↓ -96% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.05 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $7.91 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $7.91 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.91 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $7.91 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $8.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $9.91 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $10.93 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $11.20 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $11.20 | ↓ -92% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $13.88 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $13.92 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $14.96 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $18.70 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $21.91 | ↓ -85% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $113.40 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $147.00 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $151.96 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $197.40 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $231.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $231.00 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $231.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $247.80 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $252.00 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $273.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $273.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $273.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $285.60 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $294.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $294.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $294.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $315.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $347.01 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $357.00 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $420.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $108.96 | $3.84 – $16.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $74.19 | $3.59 – $92.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $76.01 | $6.26 – $114.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $81.61 | $3.59 – $102.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $74.19 | $3.59 – $92.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $76.01 | $3.84 – $114.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $76.01 | $3.59 – $114.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $81.61 | $3.59 – $122.42 |