Ablation of upper extremity nerves rf at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$489.30
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.
$1,398.00
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.
$25.50 with UNITED vs $9,158.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $25.50 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $34.25 | ↓ -93% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $59.12 | ↓ -88% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $59.12 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $78.00 | ↓ -84% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $78.00 | ↓ -84% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $79.23 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $111.84 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $111.84 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $111.84 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $111.84 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $114.08 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $114.08 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $117.44 | ↓ -76% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $149.87 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $149.87 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $196.33 | ↓ -60% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $199.53 | ↓ -59% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $212.88 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $251.30 | ↓ -49% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $258.65 | ↓ -47% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $267.38 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -40% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -40% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -40% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $295.67 | ↓ -40% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -40% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $295.67 | ↓ -40% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $298.63 | ↓ -39% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $301.58 | ↓ -38% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $301.58 | ↓ -38% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $304.54 | ↓ -38% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $316.37 | ↓ -35% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $316.37 | ↓ -35% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $325.24 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $347.33 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $379.57 | ↓ -22% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $399.15 | ↓ -18% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $406.45 | ↓ -17% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $406.45 | ↓ -17% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $406.45 | ↓ -17% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $436.92 | ↓ -11% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $443.40 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $443.40 | ↓ -9% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $443.50 | ↓ -9% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $443.50 | ↓ -9% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $443.50 | ↓ -9% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $443.50 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $443.50 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $450.24 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $455.33 | ↓ -7% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $480.35 | ↓ -2% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $480.35 | ↓ -2% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $480.35 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $480.35 | ↓ -2% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $480.35 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $502.52 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $502.60 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $517.30 | ↑ +6% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $517.30 | ↑ +6% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $517.30 | ↑ +6% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $554.25 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $561.64 | ↑ +15% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $610.57 | ↑ +25% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $628.15 | ↑ +28% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $739.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +65% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $960.93 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +99% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +243% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +391% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +397% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +397% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +406% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +462% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +462% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,309.00 | ↑ +576% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,646.00 | ↑ +645% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,158.00 | ↑ +1772% |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $8,936.10 | $81.25 – $733.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $9,924.31 | $40.14 – $871.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $9,362.69 | $71.00 – $745.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $8,936.10 | $81.25 – $733.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $9,924.31 | $81.25 – $805.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $9,924.31 | $162.50 – $733.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $9,362.69 | $71.00 – $745.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $8,936.10 | $81.25 – $733.72 |