Ghs insertion of needle - bone at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$185.90
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.
$1,239.30
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.
$185.90 with TCHP vs $1,126.38 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $185.90 | ↑ +0% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $185.90 | ↑ +0% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $217.50 | ↑ +17% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $227.54 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $234.23 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $239.97 | ↑ +29% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $261.00 | ↑ +40% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $261.00 | ↑ +40% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $272.65 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $289.00 | ↑ +55% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +115% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +115% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +115% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +115% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $403.69 | ↑ +117% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $411.68 | ↑ +121% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +130% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $446.15 | ↑ +140% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $499.61 | ↑ +169% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $534.48 | ↑ +188% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $545.39 | ↑ +193% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $594.87 | ↑ +220% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $599.54 | ↑ +223% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $599.92 | ↑ +223% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $600.74 | ↑ +223% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $755.98 | ↑ +307% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $842.73 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $867.51 | ↑ +367% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $976.20 | ↑ +425% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,126.38 | ↑ +506% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $447.75 | $454.49 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $461.99 | $130.90 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $461.99 | $71.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $356.00 | $71.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $461.99 | $123.20 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $461.99 | $85.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $461.99 | $238.70 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $356.00 | $71.00 – $987.04 |