Cystatin c at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$36.05
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.
$103.00
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.
$13.33 with Renaissance vs $103.00 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 | $13.33 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.56 | ↓ -57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.56 | ↓ -57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $15.56 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.56 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $15.56 | ↓ -57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.87 | ↓ -56% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $15.87 | ↓ -56% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.87 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $17.89 | ↓ -50% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $18.52 | ↓ -49% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $18.52 | ↓ -49% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $18.52 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $18.52 | ↓ -49% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $18.52 | ↓ -49% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $18.52 | ↓ -49% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $18.71 | ↓ -48% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $18.89 | ↓ -48% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $18.89 | ↓ -48% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $19.08 | ↓ -47% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $19.82 | ↓ -45% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $19.82 | ↓ -45% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $20.37 | ↓ -43% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $20.85 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $20.85 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $21.32 | ↓ -41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $23.96 | ↓ -34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $25.00 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $27.04 | ↓ -25% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $27.78 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $27.81 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $28.52 | ↓ -21% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $30.56 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $35.19 | ↓ -2% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $36.05 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $37.27 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $44.61 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $48.41 | ↑ +34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $48.55 | ↑ +35% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $48.55 | ↑ +35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $49.23 | ↑ +37% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $56.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $56.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $56.65 | ↑ +57% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $60.19 | ↑ +67% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $60.38 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $61.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $66.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $66.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $66.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $67.30 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $70.04 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $72.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $72.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $72.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $77.25 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $81.12 | ↑ +125% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $85.10 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $87.55 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $95.01 | ↑ +164% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $103.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Cystatin c at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $116.33 | $16.67 – $71.30 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $93.16 | $10.00 – $44.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $116.88 | $6.72 – $48.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $113.48 | $12.00 – $44.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $93.16 | $10.00 – $44.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $116.88 | $12.00 – $48.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $116.88 | $8.00 – $48.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $113.48 | $12.00 – $48.94 |