Culture fungi other (except blood) at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$135.80
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.
$388.00
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.
$6.06 with Renaissance vs $388.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $6.06 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $7.06 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $7.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $7.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.06 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $7.06 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $7.20 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.20 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $7.20 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.41 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.12 | ↓ -94% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $8.41 | ↓ -94% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $8.41 | ↓ -94% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -94% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -94% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -94% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $8.49 | ↓ -94% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.58 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $8.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $8.66 | ↓ -94% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.00 | ↓ -93% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $9.00 | ↓ -93% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $9.46 | ↓ -93% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $9.46 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $9.67 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $10.87 | ↓ -92% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $11.35 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $12.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $12.62 | ↓ -91% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $12.62 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $12.62 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.62 | ↓ -91% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $12.62 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $12.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.88 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $15.57 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $15.57 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $15.57 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $15.57 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $15.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $19.84 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $21.89 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $22.03 | ↓ -84% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $22.03 | ↓ -84% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $27.33 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $27.42 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $29.91 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $36.84 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $43.14 | ↓ -68% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $104.76 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $135.80 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $140.38 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $182.36 | ↑ +34% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $213.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $213.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $213.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $232.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $252.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $252.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $252.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $263.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $271.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $271.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $271.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $291.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $320.57 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $329.80 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $388.00 | ↑ +186% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $249.31 | $7.57 – $32.38 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $163.16 | $7.06 – $203.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $167.36 | $12.00 – $251.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $128.74 | $7.06 – $160.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $163.16 | $7.06 – $203.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $167.36 | $7.55 – $251.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $167.36 | $7.06 – $251.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $128.74 | $7.06 – $193.10 |