Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$935.70
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.
$6,238.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $5,614.20 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $100.00 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $289.99 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $330.64 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $332.00 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $360.46 | ↓ -61% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -41% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -41% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -41% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -41% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $554.68 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -40% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -37% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $686.49 | ↓ -27% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -12% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $831.78 | ↓ -11% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,351.64 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,372.36 | ↑ +47% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,559.58 | ↑ +67% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,245.68 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,994.24 | ↑ +220% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $3,805.18 | ↑ +307% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,241.84 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,366.60 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $5,614.20 | ↑ +500% |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,328.88 | $521.71 – $521.71 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,589.56 | $416.02 – $3,236.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,884.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,236.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,589.56 | $317.09 – $3,236.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,589.56 | $500.03 – $3,884.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,589.56 | $1,337.94 – $3,884.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,884.34 |