Alcohol (ethanol) any specimen except urine/breath at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$75.60
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.
$504.00
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.
$14.51 with CHC vs $453.60 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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| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.51 | ↓ -81% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $14.80 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.95 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.24 | ↓ -80% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $16.98 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $16.98 | ↓ -78% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $16.98 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $17.27 | ↓ -77% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $17.27 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $17.27 | ↓ -77% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $17.27 | ↓ -77% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $17.27 | ↓ -77% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $17.44 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $17.56 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $17.79 | ↓ -76% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $18.48 | ↓ -76% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $21.59 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $25.91 | ↓ -66% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $27.63 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $32.21 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $32.81 | ↓ -57% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $44.90 | ↓ -41% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $51.81 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $56.99 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $60.45 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $69.77 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $74.76 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $110.88 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $181.44 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $241.92 | ↑ +220% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $307.44 | ↑ +307% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $342.72 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $352.80 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $453.60 | ↑ +500% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Alcohol (ethanol) any specimen except urine/breath at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $357.06 | $15.54 – $66.49 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $214.18 | $10.00 – $267.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $66.86 | $12.00 – $100.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $50.23 | $12.00 – $62.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $214.18 | $10.00 – $267.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $66.86 | $12.00 – $100.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $66.86 | $8.00 – $100.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $50.23 | $12.00 – $75.35 |