Augumentation percutaneous vertebral including cavity creation 1 vertebral body thoracic at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$6,917.40
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.
$19,764.00
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.
$1,732.00 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $23,254.72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,732.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,089.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,398.52 | ↓ -65% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,398.52 | ↓ -65% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $2,398.52 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,398.52 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,398.52 | ↓ -65% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↓ -65% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,446.49 | ↓ -65% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,446.49 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,446.49 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,518.45 | ↓ -64% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,758.30 | ↓ -60% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $3,214.02 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3,214.02 | ↓ -54% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $3,285.97 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,309.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,646.00 | ↓ -47% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $3,693.72 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $4,486.46 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4,853.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $5,151.82 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $5,336.28 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $5,742.67 | ↓ -17% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $6,917.40 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $7,150.62 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $7,155.30 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $7,155.30 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7,155.30 | ↑ +3% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $7,155.30 | ↑ +3% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $7,155.30 | ↑ +3% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $7,155.30 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $7,164.00 | ↑ +4% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $7,226.85 | ↑ +4% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $7,298.41 | ↑ +6% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $7,298.41 | ↑ +6% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $7,369.96 | ↑ +7% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,483.38 | ↑ +8% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,483.38 | ↑ +8% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $7,656.17 | ↑ +11% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $7,656.17 | ↑ +11% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $7,870.83 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $7,961.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,961.00 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $8,673.83 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,158.00 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $9,289.08 | ↑ +34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $9,659.66 | ↑ +40% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $10,288.95 | ↑ +49% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10,474.69 | ↑ +51% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $10,732.95 | ↑ +55% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $10,732.95 | ↑ +55% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $10,732.95 | ↑ +55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,732.95 | ↑ +55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $10,732.95 | ↑ +55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $10,870.20 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $10,870.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $10,870.20 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $11,019.16 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $11,485.34 | ↑ +66% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $11,858.40 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12,846.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $12,846.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $12,846.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $13,439.52 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $13,834.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $13,834.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $13,834.80 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $14,823.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $15,020.64 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $16,329.02 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $16,799.40 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $19,764.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $23,254.72 | ↑ +236% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $11,566.33 | $2,398.52 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $11,566.33 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $12,666.07 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $11,566.33 | $2,398.52 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $11,566.33 | $85.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $11,566.33 | $2,398.52 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $12,666.07 | $71.00 – $18,999.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $11,566.33 | $2,398.52 – $17,722.46 |