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Date: 2025-05-01 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00028175
HEALTH
UNDERSTANDING THE SYSTEM

St. Luke's Health | Cost Estimator ... NOT THE ST. LUKES SYSTEM IN PA!!!!!!!!!!!


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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY



Peter Burgess
St. Luke's Health | Cost Estimator

St. Luke’s Health is committed to helping patients make informed decisions about their care. Our cost estimate tools help you estimate your out-of-pocket costs for care.
  • St. Luke's Health - Memorial Cost Estimator (Lufkin, Livingston, San Augustine)
  • St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Cost Estimator
  • St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Cost Estimator
  • St. Luke's Health – The Woodlands Cost Estimator (Huntsville)
  • Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center Cost Estimator (Main Campus, McNair Campus)
  • St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center Cost Estimator (Pasadena)
  • St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Cost Estimator
  • St. Luke's Health - Vintage Cost Estimator
  • St. Luke's Health - Spring Woods Village Hospital
Standard Charge Descriptions

Download our standard Charge Description Master (CDM) files below.
  • Brazosport Hospital
  • Memorial Livingston
  • Memorial Lufkin
  • Memorial San Augustine
  • Patients Medical Center
  • Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (McNair)
  • Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
  • Lakeside Hospital
  • Springwoods Village Hospital
  • Sugar Land Hospital
  • The Vintage Hospital
  • The Woodlands Hospital
While this tool can help you estimate some health care costs, it’s important to know that it only provides a partial estimate. The estimate includes the hospital’s charges and fees, but it does not include physician fees, such as charges for your emergency room physician, radiologist or anesthesiologist. In addition, your final cost may be higher or lower depending on many factors, including insurance coverage, the length of your stay in the hospital, health complications and recommended treatments ordered by your doctor.

For a more complete understanding of your financial responsibility, contact your insurance provider. You may also contact us to speak with a St. Luke’s Health financial counselor and learn about financial assistance options you may be eligible for.

Getting Started

To generate the most accurate estimate for your health care procedure, please have the following information available:
  • Insurance information, if applicable (not required)
  • Patient’s personal information, including contact information
  • The name of your procedure or service


Terms of Use and Disclaimer

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING WEBSITE CONTENT

Before using this cost estimation tool, please carefully consider the following information. By clicking the ‘Yes, I accept’ button below, you are acknowledging that you have read the information below, and that you are accessing this information for the purpose of determining your estimated costs associated with healthcare services.

Nothing on this site guarantees eligibility, coverage, or payment, or determines or guarantees the benefits, limitations or exclusions of your coverage. For a complete description of the details of your coverage, please refer to your coverage information from your healthcare insurance carrier.

Please keep in mind, the costs provided in this tool are estimates only and are not a guarantee of payment or benefits. The estimates are based on the selected provider’s contract rates/fee schedule with your insurance carrier. Your actual cost may be higher or lower than the estimate for various reasons. You will be responsible for the cost of procedures or services not covered by your insurance plan.This is a cost estimation tool and does not include physician fees

The 'Help' is intended to clarify terms displayed during the cost estimation process. For health related terms, please refer to your benefits document for complete terms, definitions and specific coverage details.

Why costs may vary

The cost estimates provided may be different from your actual costs for several reasons, including but not limited to:
  • your unique medical services/treatment and the decisions made by you or your health care provider as to what services you will receive; if the services you receive are different from the services selected during the estimation process.
  • location of where your services are received differs from what is selected during this estimation process.
  • if your year-to-date benefit information changes from the time at which you receive this estimate and the time at which you receive care.
  • if your healthcare provider’s contract with your insurance carrier changes.
  • This tool does not include physician fees, such as charges from a patient’s emergency room physician, radiologist, anesthesiologist, pathologist or other consulting physicians.
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