Culture quantitative aerobic other source at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$14.00
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.
$40.00
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.
$7.12 with Renaissance vs $40.00 with BCBS-TX — 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 | $7.12 | ↓ -49% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $8.31 | ↓ -41% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $8.31 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $8.31 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $8.31 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.31 | ↓ -41% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $8.48 | ↓ -39% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.48 | ↓ -39% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $8.48 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.73 | ↓ -38% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $9.56 | ↓ -32% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $9.89 | ↓ -29% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -29% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -29% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $9.89 | ↓ -29% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -29% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $9.99 | ↓ -29% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.09 | ↓ -28% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $10.09 | ↓ -28% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $10.19 | ↓ -27% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $10.58 | ↓ -24% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $10.58 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $10.80 | ↓ -23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $10.88 | ↓ -22% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $11.14 | ↓ -20% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $11.14 | ↓ -20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $11.38 | ↓ -19% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $12.80 | ↓ -9% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $13.35 | ↓ -5% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $14.00 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $14.44 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $14.48 | ↑ +3% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $14.84 | ↑ +6% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $14.84 | ↑ +6% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $14.84 | ↑ +6% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $14.84 | ↑ +6% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.84 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $15.23 | ↑ +9% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $16.32 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $17.49 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $17.49 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $17.49 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $17.49 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $18.79 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $18.80 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $22.00 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $22.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $22.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $23.97 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $24.00 | ↑ +71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $25.93 | ↑ +85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $25.93 | ↑ +85% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $26.00 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $26.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $26.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $26.44 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $27.20 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $28.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $28.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $28.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $30.00 | ↑ +114% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $32.14 | ↑ +130% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $32.24 | ↑ +130% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $33.05 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $34.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $36.14 | ↑ +158% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $40.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $40.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $40.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $134.31 | $8.31 – $167.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $148.28 | $12.00 – $222.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $134.06 | $8.31 – $167.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $134.31 | $8.31 – $167.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $148.28 | $8.89 – $222.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $148.28 | $8.00 – $222.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $134.06 | $8.31 – $201.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $134.31 | $8.31 – $167.89 |