Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$1,351.70
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.
$3,862.00
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.
$1,042.74 with OPTUM vs $20,636.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,042.74 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,076.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,298.00 | ↓ -4% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,351.70 | ↑ +0% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,397.28 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,551.50 | ↑ +15% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,551.50 | ↑ +15% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $1,551.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,551.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,551.50 | ↑ +15% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,582.53 | ↑ +17% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,582.53 | ↑ +17% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,582.53 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,629.08 | ↑ +21% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,784.22 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,815.14 | ↑ +34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $2,079.01 | ↑ +54% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $2,079.01 | ↑ +54% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,124.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,124.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,124.10 | ↑ +57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $2,125.55 | ↑ +57% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $2,317.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,317.20 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $2,332.01 | ↑ +73% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $2,389.31 | ↑ +77% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +80% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $2,510.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,510.30 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,510.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,510.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,510.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,545.04 | ↑ +88% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,626.16 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,703.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,703.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,703.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,896.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,935.12 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,984.97 | ↑ +121% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,190.79 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,282.70 | ↑ +143% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,534.78 | ↑ +162% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,534.78 | ↑ +162% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,534.78 | ↑ +162% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,534.78 | ↑ +162% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,534.78 | ↑ +162% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,534.78 | ↑ +162% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,570.13 | ↑ +164% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,605.48 | ↑ +167% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,605.48 | ↑ +167% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,640.82 | ↑ +169% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,677.00 | ↑ +172% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,782.21 | ↑ +180% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,782.21 | ↑ +180% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,862.00 | ↑ +186% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,888.26 | ↑ +188% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $4,508.54 | ↑ +234% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,771.95 | ↑ +253% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,840.68 | ↑ +258% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,840.68 | ↑ +258% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $5,302.17 | ↑ +292% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $5,302.17 | ↑ +292% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,302.17 | ↑ +292% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $5,302.17 | ↑ +292% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $5,302.17 | ↑ +292% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,320.57 | ↑ +294% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $5,348.06 | ↑ +296% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $5,428.00 | ↑ +302% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $5,443.56 | ↑ +303% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $5,969.93 | ↑ +342% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $6,032.00 | ↑ +346% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,032.00 | ↑ +346% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7,455.00 | ↑ +452% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8,215.00 | ↑ +508% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $11,488.03 | ↑ +750% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20,636.00 | ↑ +1427% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,524.66 | $1,551.50 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,943.21 | $71.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $5,698.52 | $71.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,524.66 | $1,551.50 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,943.21 | $85.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,943.21 | $1,551.50 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $5,698.52 | $71.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $4,524.66 | $1,551.50 – $8,570.48 |