ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$1,760.15
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.
$5,029.00
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.
$402.32 with TCHP vs $7,146.00 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $402.32 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $402.32 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $402.32 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $402.32 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $402.32 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $402.32 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $410.37 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $410.37 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $410.37 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $422.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $442.14 | ↓ -75% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $539.11 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $539.11 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $539.11 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $551.18 | ↓ -69% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $614.09 | ↓ -65% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $614.09 | ↓ -65% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $614.09 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $614.09 | ↓ -65% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $614.09 | ↓ -65% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $614.09 | ↓ -65% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $620.23 | ↓ -65% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $626.37 | ↓ -64% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $626.37 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $632.51 | ↓ -64% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $657.08 | ↓ -63% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $657.08 | ↓ -63% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $675.50 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $736.58 | ↓ -58% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $829.02 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $852.62 | ↓ -52% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $873.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $921.13 | ↓ -48% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $921.13 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $921.13 | ↓ -48% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $921.13 | ↓ -48% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $921.13 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $945.70 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,069.56 | ↓ -39% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,240.20 | ↓ -30% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,255.24 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,255.24 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,357.83 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,412.63 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,604.34 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,725.00 | ↓ -2% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,760.15 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,819.50 | ↑ +3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,995.79 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,116.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,332.00 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,363.63 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,546.00 | ↑ +45% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,765.95 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,765.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,765.95 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,829.00 | ↑ +61% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,829.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,017.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $3,060.00 | ↑ +74% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $3,060.00 | ↑ +74% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $3,268.85 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,268.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,268.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,419.72 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,520.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,520.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,520.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,771.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,822.04 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,154.96 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $4,274.65 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $5,029.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,857.00 | ↑ +233% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $5,925.00 | ↑ +237% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $7,146.00 | ↑ +306% |
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ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,127.54 | $1,942.36 – $1,942.36 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,327.80 | $568.33 – $6,299.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,377.55 | $489.38 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,377.55 | $475.51 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,327.80 | $568.33 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,377.55 | $568.33 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,377.55 | $1,228.40 – $5,475.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,377.55 | $568.33 – $5,475.00 |