Acetylcysteine non-comp unit at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$2.52
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.
$16.78
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.
$3.27 with BCBS-TX vs $15.11 with Galaxy — 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-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $3.27 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $3.38 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $3.44 | ↑ +37% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3.70 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $3.96 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.05 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $8.06 | ↑ +220% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $8.78 | ↑ +248% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $10.24 | ↑ +306% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $11.42 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.75 | ↑ +366% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $15.11 | ↑ +500% |
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Acetylcysteine non-comp unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $102.06 | $3.00 – $65.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $56.41 | $3.00 – $65.55 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $4.62 | $0.27 – $1.19 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $2.52 | $3.27 – $15.11 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $4.62 | $0.27 – $1.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $4.62 | $0.27 – $1.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $34.92 | $3.00 – $65.55 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $4.62 | $0.27 – $1.19 |