Pet image w/ct lmtd at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$3,694.25
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.
$10,555.00
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.
$844.40 with TCHP vs $10,555.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $844.40 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $844.40 | ↓ -77% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,051.88 | ↓ -72% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,131.50 | ↓ -69% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,460.95 | ↓ -60% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -60% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,460.95 | ↓ -60% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -60% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -60% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,475.56 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,489.35 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,489.35 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,489.35 | ↓ -60% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,490.17 | ↓ -60% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,490.17 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,504.78 | ↓ -59% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,519.14 | ↓ -59% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,519.14 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,519.14 | ↓ -59% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,563.22 | ↓ -58% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,563.22 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,563.82 | ↓ -58% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,607.05 | ↓ -56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,712.75 | ↓ -54% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,972.28 | ↓ -47% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,995.73 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,008.39 | ↓ -46% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $2,040.41 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,100.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,191.43 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,191.43 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,191.43 | ↓ -41% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,191.43 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,191.43 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,249.86 | ↓ -39% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $2,293.60 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $2,338.54 | ↓ -37% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,475.07 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,849.85 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,913.00 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,100.00 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,283.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,385.00 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,447.00 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,447.00 | ↓ -7% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,694.25 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,730.00 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,818.80 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $4,264.39 | ↑ +15% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,646.77 | ↑ +26% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,646.77 | ↑ +26% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $4,748.09 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,960.85 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $5,323.61 | ↑ +44% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,805.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5,805.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,805.25 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $5,983.90 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $6,227.45 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $6,333.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6,860.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,860.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,860.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $7,177.40 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $7,388.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $7,388.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,388.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,916.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8,720.55 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $8,971.75 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,370.00 | ↑ +154% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $10,555.00 | ↑ +186% |
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