Hydrocolld drg <=16 without bdr at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$3.00
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.
$19.95
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.
$4.39 with United vs $19.95 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 | $4.39 | ↑ +46% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.19 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $9.58 | ↑ +219% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $12.17 | ↑ +306% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $12.39 | ↑ +313% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $12.84 | ↑ +328% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $13.07 | ↑ +336% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $13.57 | ↑ +352% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $13.97 | ↑ +366% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $14.67 | ↑ +389% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $17.96 | ↑ +499% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $19.95 | ↑ +565% |
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Hydrocolld drg <=16 without bdr at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $14.00 | $9.14 – $20.06 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $17.31 | $8.74 – $8.74 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $3.00 | $4.99 – $19.95 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $17.31 | $8.74 – $36.41 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine | San Augustine | $3.00 | $3.60 – $20.75 |
| Ascension Providence | Waco | $17.82 | $8.51 – $9.50 |
| Covenant Hospital Plainview | Plainview | $17.31 | $8.36 – $8.36 |
| Covenant Hospital Levelland | Levelland | $17.31 | $8.36 – $8.36 |