Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$384.30
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.
$1,098.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $1,098.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $102.08 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $118.16 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $148.23 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $195.78 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $222.35 | ↓ -42% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $296.46 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $380.00 | ↓ -1% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $384.30 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $397.26 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $516.06 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $564.00 | ↑ +47% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $603.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $603.90 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $603.90 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $623.00 | ↑ +62% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $623.00 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $658.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $713.70 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $713.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $713.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $746.64 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $768.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $768.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $768.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $823.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $834.48 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $907.17 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $933.30 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,098.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $576.16 | $112.00 – $816.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $576.16 | $112.00 – $864.24 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $504.10 | $100.82 – $630.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $576.16 | $112.00 – $816.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $576.16 | $112.00 – $864.24 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $576.16 | $155.00 – $864.24 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $504.10 | $112.00 – $756.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $576.16 | $112.00 – $816.23 |