Thyroid (TSH) Test at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$151.55
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.
$433.00
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.
$12.10 with Renaissance vs $433.00 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 | $12.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $14.11 | ↓ -91% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $14.11 | ↓ -91% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $14.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $14.11 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $14.39 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $14.39 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.39 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.82 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.23 | ↓ -89% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $16.80 | ↓ -89% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $16.80 | ↓ -89% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $16.80 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $16.80 | ↓ -89% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $16.80 | ↓ -89% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $16.80 | ↓ -89% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $16.97 | ↓ -89% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $17.14 | ↓ -89% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $17.14 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $17.30 | ↓ -89% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $17.98 | ↓ -88% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $17.98 | ↓ -88% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $18.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $18.91 | ↓ -88% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $18.91 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $19.33 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $21.73 | ↓ -86% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $22.68 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $24.53 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $25.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $25.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $25.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $25.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $25.87 | ↓ -83% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $27.72 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $31.13 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $31.13 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $31.13 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $31.13 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $31.92 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $40.48 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $44.02 | ↓ -71% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $44.02 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $44.67 | ↓ -71% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $54.60 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $54.77 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $61.07 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $73.58 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $86.18 | ↓ -43% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $116.91 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $151.55 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $156.66 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $203.51 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $238.15 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $238.15 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $238.15 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $259.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $281.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $281.45 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $281.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $294.44 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $303.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $303.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $303.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $324.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $357.75 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $368.05 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $433.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Thyroid (TSH) Test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $303.60 | $15.12 – $64.68 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $171.47 | $10.00 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $144.32 | $7.41 – $54.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $177.40 | $12.00 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $171.47 | $10.00 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $144.32 | $12.00 – $54.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $144.32 | $8.00 – $54.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $177.40 | $12.00 – $54.00 |