Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$22.05
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.
$63.00
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.
$4.50 with United vs $2,430.00 with Humana — 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|HMO | $4.50 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4.50 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4.50 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $4.52 | ↓ -80% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.95 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $4.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $6.54 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6.83 | ↓ -69% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -59% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -59% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -59% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $9.09 | ↓ -59% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $9.09 | ↓ -59% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $9.18 | ↓ -58% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.27 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $9.27 | ↓ -58% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $9.36 | ↓ -58% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $9.73 | ↓ -56% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.73 | ↓ -56% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $10.00 | ↓ -55% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $12.27 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $13.63 | ↓ -38% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $13.63 | ↓ -38% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $13.63 | ↓ -38% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.63 | ↓ -38% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $13.63 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $14.00 | ↓ -37% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $15.12 | ↓ -31% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $19.60 | ↓ -11% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $20.27 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $26.32 | ↑ +19% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $29.54 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $30.80 | ↑ +40% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $30.80 | ↑ +40% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $30.80 | ↑ +40% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $33.60 | ↑ +52% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $33.60 | ↑ +52% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $36.40 | ↑ +65% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $36.40 | ↑ +65% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $36.40 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $39.20 | ↑ +78% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $39.20 | ↑ +78% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $39.20 | ↑ +78% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $42.00 | ↑ +90% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $46.27 | ↑ +110% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $47.60 | ↑ +116% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $56.00 | ↑ +154% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +10806% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +10920% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +10920% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $67.16 | $8.18 – $8.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $28.65 | $8.12 – $35.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $25.87 | $5.32 – $38.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $32.66 | $6.05 – $37.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $28.65 | $7.64 – $35.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $25.87 | $8.30 – $38.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $25.87 | $8.00 – $38.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $32.66 | $8.87 – $45.37 |