Liver Function Test at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$326.55
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.
$933.00
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.
$5.88 with Renaissance vs $933.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6.86 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $7.00 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $7.00 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.20 | ↓ -98% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -97% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -97% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $8.17 | ↓ -97% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $8.17 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $8.25 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.33 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $8.33 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $8.42 | ↓ -97% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -97% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -97% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.99 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $9.42 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $9.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $9.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $9.42 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $9.61 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.83 | ↓ -97% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $11.03 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $11.93 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.26 | ↓ -96% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $12.26 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $12.26 | ↓ -96% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $12.26 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $12.26 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $12.58 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $12.62 | ↓ -96% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $12.62 | ↓ -96% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $12.91 | ↓ -96% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.48 | ↓ -96% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $14.51 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $15.14 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $15.14 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $15.14 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $15.14 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $15.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $19.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $21.89 | ↓ -93% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $26.55 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $26.63 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $29.39 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $29.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $29.91 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $35.78 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $41.91 | ↓ -87% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $251.91 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $326.55 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $337.56 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $438.51 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $513.15 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $513.15 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $513.15 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $559.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $606.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $606.45 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $606.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $634.44 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $653.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $653.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $653.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $699.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $770.85 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $793.05 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $933.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Liver Function Test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $363.81 | $7.35 – $31.45 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $193.52 | $6.86 – $241.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $149.95 | $11.97 – $224.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $161.95 | $6.86 – $202.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $193.52 | $6.86 – $241.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $149.95 | $7.34 – $224.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $149.95 | $6.86 – $224.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $161.95 | $6.86 – $242.92 |