Ghs aspiration bladder - needle at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$820.40
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.
$2,344.00
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.
$29.24 with BCBS-TX vs $2,749.00 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $29.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $36.54 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $36.54 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $36.54 | ↓ -96% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $36.54 | ↓ -96% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $36.54 | ↓ -96% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $37.27 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $37.27 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $37.42 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.37 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $42.02 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $48.96 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $48.96 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $50.06 | ↓ -94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $56.27 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $56.52 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $67.05 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $74.84 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $114.00 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $114.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $175.39 | ↓ -79% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $243.60 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $243.60 | ↓ -70% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↓ -70% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↓ -70% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $243.60 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $246.04 | ↓ -70% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $248.47 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $248.47 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $250.91 | ↓ -69% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $260.65 | ↓ -68% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $260.65 | ↓ -68% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $267.96 | ↓ -67% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $328.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $365.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $365.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $365.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $365.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $365.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $375.14 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $445.00 | ↓ -46% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $632.88 | ↓ -23% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $791.70 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↓ -2% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $820.40 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $848.06 | ↑ +3% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,101.68 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,289.20 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,289.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,289.20 | ↑ +57% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,406.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,406.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,523.60 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,523.60 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,523.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,523.60 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,523.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,593.92 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,640.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,640.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,640.80 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,758.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,781.44 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,936.62 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,992.40 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,344.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +196% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +196% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +202% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +235% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +235% |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $934.66 | $36.54 – $1,168.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $590.84 | $39.10 – $886.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $593.88 | $36.54 – $742.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $934.66 | $36.54 – $1,168.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $590.84 | $39.10 – $886.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $590.84 | $36.54 – $886.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $593.88 | $36.54 – $890.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $934.66 | $36.54 – $1,168.32 |