Insert cath pleura with image at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$516.00
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.
$3,440.00
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.
$469.48 with SUPERIOR vs $4,527.54 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $469.48 | ↓ -9% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $478.87 | ↓ -7% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $483.56 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $492.95 | ↓ -4% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $549.29 | ↑ +6% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $549.29 | ↑ +6% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $549.29 | ↑ +6% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $568.07 | ↑ +10% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $711.26 | ↑ +38% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,042.25 | ↑ +102% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,076.55 | ↑ +109% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,163.88 | ↑ +126% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,551.84 | ↑ +201% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +202% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +202% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +202% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +202% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +202% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,571.52 | ↑ +205% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↑ +211% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↑ +223% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $1,944.95 | ↑ +277% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,972.13 | ↑ +282% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,016.00 | ↑ +291% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,198.44 | ↑ +326% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,263.10 | ↑ +339% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↑ +352% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,397.76 | ↑ +365% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $2,414.69 | ↑ +368% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,446.70 | ↑ +374% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,691.36 | ↑ +422% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $2,909.70 | ↑ +464% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,923.87 | ↑ +660% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,527.54 | ↑ +777% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,239.02 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,952.51 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,579.11 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,239.02 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,952.51 | $85.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,952.51 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,579.11 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,239.02 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |