Specimen fat stain at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$28.70
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.
$82.00
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.
$4.23 with Renaissance vs $82.00 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 | $4.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.94 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.94 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.94 | ↓ -83% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $5.04 | ↓ -82% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $5.04 | ↓ -82% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5.04 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.19 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $5.68 | ↓ -80% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $5.88 | ↓ -80% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -80% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -80% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $5.88 | ↓ -80% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -80% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $5.94 | ↓ -79% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $6.06 | ↓ -79% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $6.29 | ↓ -78% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $6.29 | ↓ -78% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $6.62 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $6.62 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $6.77 | ↓ -76% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $7.61 | ↓ -73% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $7.94 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $8.58 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.82 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8.82 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8.82 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $8.82 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.82 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8.82 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.82 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $8.82 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $9.06 | ↓ -68% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.70 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $11.17 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $14.04 | ↓ -51% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.41 | ↓ -46% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.41 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $15.49 | ↓ -46% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $19.11 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $19.17 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.19 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $22.14 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $25.75 | ↓ -10% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $28.70 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $29.67 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $30.16 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $38.54 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $45.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $45.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $45.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $48.38 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $49.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $53.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $53.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $53.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $55.76 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $57.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $57.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $57.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $67.75 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $69.70 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $82.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $28.52 | $5.87 – $42.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $27.68 | $4.94 – $34.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $28.52 | $5.29 – $42.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $28.52 | $4.94 – $42.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $27.68 | $4.94 – $41.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $28.52 | $4.94 – $35.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $28.52 | $4.94 – $42.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $27.68 | $4.94 – $41.53 |