Blood Culture Test at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$82.80
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.
$552.00
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.
$8.67 with CHC vs $52.20 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 | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.67 | ↓ -90% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.93 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.10 | ↓ -89% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $10.14 | ↓ -88% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $10.14 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $10.14 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $10.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $10.49 | ↓ -87% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -87% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $11.04 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $12.76 | ↓ -85% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $12.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $15.48 | ↓ -81% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $16.51 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $19.25 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $19.61 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.88 | ↓ -75% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $26.83 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $27.84 | ↓ -66% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $30.96 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $34.06 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $35.38 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $36.12 | ↓ -56% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $39.44 | ↓ -52% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $40.60 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $41.69 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $44.86 | ↓ -46% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $52.20 | ↓ -37% |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $205.15 | $8.67 – $256.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $204.31 | $8.67 – $255.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $162.54 | $9.28 – $243.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $162.54 | $8.00 – $243.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $205.15 | $8.67 – $307.73 |