Contact layer >16<= 48 sq in at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$4.73
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.
$31.50
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.
$6.93 with United vs $31.50 with Cigna — 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 | $6.93 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.34 | ↑ +140% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $13.90 | ↑ +194% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $14.42 | ↑ +205% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $14.67 | ↑ +210% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $15.12 | ↑ +220% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $16.46 | ↑ +248% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $19.22 | ↑ +306% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $21.42 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.05 | ↑ +366% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $28.35 | ↑ +499% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $31.50 | ↑ +566% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Contact layer >16<= 48 sq in at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $9.45 | $6.88 – $48.60 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $4.73 | $7.88 – $31.50 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $9.45 | $12.28 – $45.90 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $9.45 | $12.28 – $59.94 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine | San Augustine | $4.73 | $5.67 – $32.76 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $9.45 | $11.88 – $48.60 |
| Ascension Providence | Waco | $14.49 | $9.55 – $10.66 |
| Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $46.98 | $8.44 – $10.24 |