Ultrasound elastography ea l target les at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$54.25
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.
$155.00
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.
$12.40 with TCHP vs $592.00 with United — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $12.40 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.40 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $16.62 | ↓ -69% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $41.85 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $48.28 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $49.99 | ↓ -8% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $54.25 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $56.08 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $61.15 | ↑ +13% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $61.15 | ↑ +13% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $61.81 | ↑ +14% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $62.37 | ↑ +15% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $63.05 | ↑ +16% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $63.05 | ↑ +16% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $64.90 | ↑ +20% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $70.32 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $72.85 | ↑ +34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $81.94 | ↑ +51% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $83.78 | ↑ +54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $85.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $85.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $85.25 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $87.65 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $91.45 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $93.00 | ↑ +71% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $94.17 | ↑ +74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +84% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $100.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $100.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $100.75 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $102.72 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $105.40 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $108.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $108.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $108.50 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $115.39 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $116.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $128.07 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $131.75 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $155.00 | ↑ +186% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $190.79 | ↑ +252% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $190.79 | ↑ +252% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $362.00 | ↑ +567% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $533.00 | ↑ +882% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $592.00 | ↑ +991% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $592.00 | ↑ +991% |
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Ultrasound elastography ea l target les at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $54.25 | $17.05 – $155.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $54.25 | $15.50 – $155.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $54.25 | $12.40 – $155.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $54.25 | $12.40 – $155.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $131.82 – $131.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $60.26 – $220.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $60.26 – $220.83 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $149.29 – $149.29 |