Artery x-rays spine at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$4,306.40
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.
$12,304.00
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.
$140.00 with United vs $17,596.99 with NX Health — 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 | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $248.59 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $248.59 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $250.94 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $253.56 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $255.96 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $255.96 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $263.49 | ↓ -94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $285.88 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $333.11 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $340.57 | ↓ -92% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $382.83 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $407.65 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $448.97 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $550.88 | ↓ -87% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $775.60 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $775.60 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $984.32 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $984.32 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,318.99 | ↓ -69% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $3,322.08 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $3,898.41 | ↓ -9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $4,306.40 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $4,451.59 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +26% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +26% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +26% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $5,414.46 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +26% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $5,414.46 | ↑ +26% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $5,468.60 | ↑ +27% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,522.75 | ↑ +28% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $5,522.75 | ↑ +28% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $5,576.89 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $5,782.88 | ↑ +34% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,793.47 | ↑ +35% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5,793.47 | ↑ +35% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,955.91 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $6,480.63 | ↑ +50% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $6,710.44 | ↑ +56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $6,767.20 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $6,767.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $6,767.20 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $7,259.36 | ↑ +69% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $7,309.52 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $7,382.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,974.68 | ↑ +85% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,997.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $7,997.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $7,997.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8,121.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $8,121.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,121.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $8,121.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $8,121.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $8,338.27 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $8,366.72 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $8,612.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $8,612.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $8,612.80 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $9,228.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $10,165.57 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $10,458.40 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $11,766.25 | ↑ +173% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $12,304.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $12,304.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $12,304.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $17,596.99 | ↑ +309% |
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Artery x-rays spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,255.45 | $875.91 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $6,385.15 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,255.45 | $268.51 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,255.45 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $6,385.15 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |