Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$7.21
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.
$20.58
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.
$0.41 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $1.86 with BCBS-TX — 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 |
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| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $0.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $0.49 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $0.49 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $0.49 | ↓ -93% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $0.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $0.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.62 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $0.64 | ↓ -91% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $0.66 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.67 | ↓ -91% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $0.68 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $0.71 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.71 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $0.88 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $0.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $0.90 | ↓ -88% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.92 | ↓ -87% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1.03 | ↓ -86% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1.03 | ↓ -86% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1.03 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1.21 | ↓ -83% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1.31 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1.31 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1.31 | ↓ -82% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1.31 | ↓ -82% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1.31 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $1.34 | ↓ -81% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1.40 | ↓ -81% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1.54 | ↓ -79% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1.59 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1.86 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1.86 | ↓ -74% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1.86 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1.86 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1.86 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1.86 | ↓ -74% |
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Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $30.00 | $0.77 – $21.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $30.00 | $0.77 – $22.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $30.00 | $0.77 – $19.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $30.00 | $0.77 – $21.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $30.00 | $0.77 – $22.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $30.00 | $0.77 – $22.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $30.00 | $0.77 – $22.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $30.00 | $0.77 – $21.68 |