Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$10.65
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.
$71.00
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.
$3.74 with United vs $26.49 with Brookshire Brothers — 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3.74 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.12 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $8.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $8.19 | ↓ -23% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -15% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -15% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $9.18 | ↓ -14% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $9.36 | ↓ -12% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $9.73 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $10.37 | ↓ -3% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $10.65 | ↑ +0% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.65 | ↑ +0% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $11.36 | ↑ +7% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $11.56 | ↑ +9% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.90 | ↑ +12% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $12.47 | ↑ +17% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $12.78 | ↑ +20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.78 | ↑ +20% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.78 | ↑ +20% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $12.78 | ↑ +20% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.78 | ↑ +20% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.78 | ↑ +20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.78 | ↑ +20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $12.78 | ↑ +20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $13.04 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.42 | ↑ +26% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $13.64 | ↑ +28% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $14.13 | ↑ +33% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $14.96 | ↑ +40% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $14.96 | ↑ +40% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $15.30 | ↑ +44% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $22.96 | ↑ +116% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $26.49 | ↑ +149% |
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Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $67.16 | $8.18 – $8.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $28.65 | $8.12 – $35.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $25.87 | $5.32 – $38.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $32.66 | $6.05 – $37.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $28.65 | $7.64 – $35.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $25.87 | $8.30 – $38.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $25.87 | $8.00 – $38.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $32.66 | $8.87 – $45.37 |