Eye implant band 40 at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$9,738.75
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.
$27,825.00
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.
$7.56 with BCBS-TX vs $36.00 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 |
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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $7.56 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $7.92 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8.64 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $9.00 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $9.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.36 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $9.72 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $10.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $10.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $10.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $10.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $10.80 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $10.80 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $11.16 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.16 | ↓ -100% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $12.60 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $13.03 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $13.32 | ↓ -100% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.76 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $15.12 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $15.12 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $16.92 | ↓ -100% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $19.80 | ↓ -100% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $19.80 | ↓ -100% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $19.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $21.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $21.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $21.60 | ↓ -100% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $23.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $23.40 | ↓ -100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $23.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $23.40 | ↓ -100% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $23.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $25.20 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $25.20 | ↓ -100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $27.00 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $29.75 | ↓ -100% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $30.60 | ↓ -100% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $36.00 | ↓ -100% |
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Eye implant band 40 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $133.82 | not published |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $133.82 | $1,560.63 – $1,560.63 |
| Covenant Hospital Plainview | Plainview | $133.82 | not published |
| Covenant Hospital Levelland | Levelland | $133.82 | not published |
| Covenant Specialty Hospital | Lubbock | $133.82 | not published |