Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at Covenant Hospital Levelland
1900 College Ave, Levelland, TX · Providence · · NPI 1225146400
$213.36
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.
$508.00
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.
$34.04 with Bcbs vs $163.17 with Bcbs — 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 |
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| Bcbs | Vapc3 Government | $34.04 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $35.09 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior | Wellcare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $36.84 | ↓ -83% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $37.02 | ↓ -83% |
| Bcbs | Ers Hmo | $133.69 | ↓ -37% |
| Bcbs | Hmo | $134.04 | ↓ -37% |
| Bcbs | Ppo | $149.13 | ↓ -30% |
| Bcbs | Traditional | $163.17 | ↓ -24% |
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Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $241.92 | $76.64 – $152.99 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $500.00 | $28.89 – $144.97 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $862.48 | $28.89 – $144.97 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $27.54 | $29.48 – $155.70 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |