Albumin, human 5 % intravenous solution at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$589.72
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.
$1,684.90
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.
$10.62 with TCHP vs $193.56 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 |
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| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $10.62 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $10.62 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $10.62 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $10.62 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.83 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.21 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $13.56 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $14.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $14.23 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $14.55 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $15.17 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $15.30 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $16.35 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $17.18 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $22.83 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $22.83 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $22.83 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $26.37 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $33.09 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $33.13 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $33.13 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $40.43 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $42.59 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $50.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $50.33 | ↓ -91% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $52.27 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $61.94 | ↓ -89% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $67.75 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $69.69 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $69.69 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $69.69 | ↓ -88% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $70.04 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $90.98 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $92.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $92.91 | ↓ -84% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $94.85 | ↓ -84% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $106.46 | ↓ -82% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $106.46 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $106.46 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $116.14 | ↓ -80% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $116.14 | ↓ -80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $125.82 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $125.82 | ↓ -79% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $125.82 | ↓ -79% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $135.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $135.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $135.50 | ↓ -77% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $135.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $135.50 | ↓ -77% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $145.17 | ↓ -75% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $159.92 | ↓ -73% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $164.53 | ↓ -72% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $193.56 | ↓ -67% |
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Albumin, human 5 % intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,427.67 | $10.49 – $102.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $1,384.38 | $10.49 – $102.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $1,298.67 | $10.49 – $102.17 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $589.72 | $10.62 – $193.56 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $589.72 | $10.62 – $193.56 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $589.72 | $10.62 – $193.56 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $589.72 | $10.62 – $193.56 |
| Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $71.37 | $10.49 – $52.12 |