Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$1,258.50
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.
$8,390.00
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.
$304.71 with Cigna vs $15,535.29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $304.71 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,845.58 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,020.04 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4,026.72 | ↑ +220% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $5,117.29 | ↑ +307% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +330% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +330% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +330% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +330% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +330% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $5,468.60 | ↑ +335% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $5,576.89 | ↑ +343% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $5,704.52 | ↑ +353% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5,793.47 | ↑ +360% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,872.30 | ↑ +367% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $6,476.10 | ↑ +415% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6,476.10 | ↑ +415% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $6,597.26 | ↑ +424% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6,597.26 | ↑ +424% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6,597.26 | ↑ +424% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6,597.26 | ↑ +424% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6,597.26 | ↑ +424% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6,597.26 | ↑ +424% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6,670.38 | ↑ +430% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6,729.21 | ↑ +435% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $6,768.07 | ↑ +438% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $6,927.12 | ↑ +450% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $7,550.10 | ↑ +500% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $7,577.04 | ↑ +502% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $7,718.79 | ↑ +513% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $7,718.79 | ↑ +513% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $7,836.08 | ↑ +523% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8,121.69 | ↑ +545% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $8,285.49 | ↑ +558% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $8,389.00 | ↑ +567% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $8,389.00 | ↑ +567% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $8,389.00 | ↑ +567% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $8,389.00 | ↑ +567% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $13,463.92 | ↑ +970% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $14,376.94 | ↑ +1042% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $15,535.29 | ↑ +1134% |
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Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,167.26 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,994.35 | $1,028.00 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,728.24 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,167.26 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,994.35 | $129.42 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,994.35 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,728.24 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $3,167.26 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |