X-ray assay calculus at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$31.85
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.
$91.00
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.
$9.01 with Renaissance vs $91.00 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 | $9.01 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $10.52 | ↓ -67% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $10.52 | ↓ -67% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|Lakeside | $10.52 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.52 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $10.52 | ↓ -67% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $10.73 | ↓ -66% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $10.73 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.73 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.05 | ↓ -65% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.10 | ↓ -62% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $12.52 | ↓ -61% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $12.52 | ↓ -61% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $12.52 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $12.52 | ↓ -61% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $12.52 | ↓ -61% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $12.52 | ↓ -61% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $12.65 | ↓ -60% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $12.77 | ↓ -60% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $12.77 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $12.90 | ↓ -59% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $13.40 | ↓ -58% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $13.40 | ↓ -58% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $13.77 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $14.10 | ↓ -56% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $14.10 | ↓ -56% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $14.41 | ↓ -55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $16.20 | ↓ -49% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $16.90 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $18.28 | ↓ -43% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $18.78 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $18.78 | ↓ -41% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $18.78 | ↓ -41% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $18.78 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.78 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $19.28 | ↓ -39% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.66 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.19 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $23.19 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $23.19 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $23.19 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $23.79 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $24.57 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $29.74 | ↓ -7% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $31.85 | ↑ +0% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $32.82 | ↑ +3% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $32.82 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $32.82 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $32.93 | ↑ +3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $40.69 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $40.82 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $42.77 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $44.87 | ↑ +41% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $50.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $50.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $50.05 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $54.60 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $54.84 | ↑ +72% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $59.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $59.15 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $59.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $61.88 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $63.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $63.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $63.70 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $64.23 | ↑ +102% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $68.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $75.19 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $77.35 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $91.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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X-ray assay calculus at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $72.61 | $12.00 – $108.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $72.61 | $10.52 – $90.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $72.61 | $11.26 – $108.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $72.61 | $8.00 – $108.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $72.61 | $10.52 – $108.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $72.61 | $10.52 – $90.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $72.61 | $10.52 – $108.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $72.61 | $10.52 – $108.92 |