X-ray skull > 4 views complete at St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital
1317 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659559573
$537.25
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.
$1,535.00
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.
$44.78 with Wellpoint vs $1,535.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $44.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $44.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $44.78 | ↓ -92% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $45.68 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $45.68 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $45.68 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $47.02 | ↓ -91% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $51.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $60.01 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $61.35 | ↓ -89% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $68.96 | ↓ -87% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $76.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $98.95 | ↓ -82% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -80% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $107.58 | ↓ -80% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -80% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $108.98 | ↓ -80% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -80% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $112.54 | ↓ -79% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -79% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -79% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $117.16 | ↓ -78% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $122.80 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $122.80 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $133.71 | ↓ -75% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $139.71 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $139.71 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -74% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $143.79 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $158.03 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $159.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $159.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $159.76 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $163.64 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $164.03 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $164.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $182.06 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $286.92 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $336.24 | ↓ -37% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $346.16 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $377.71 | ↓ -30% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $414.45 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $537.25 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $555.37 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $721.45 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $844.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $844.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $844.25 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $905.65 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $921.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $997.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $997.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $997.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,043.80 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,074.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,074.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,074.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,151.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,268.22 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,304.75 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,535.00 | ↑ +186% |
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X-ray skull > 4 views complete at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $350.76 | $44.78 – $438.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $440.90 | $90.75 – $661.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $449.72 | $44.78 – $562.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $350.76 | $44.78 – $438.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $440.90 | $47.91 – $661.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $440.90 | $44.78 – $661.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $449.72 | $44.78 – $674.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $350.76 | $44.78 – $438.45 |