Lactic acid at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$53.25
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.
$355.00
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.
$9.24 with United vs $49.35 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 | $9.24 | ↓ -83% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -82% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $9.91 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $11.37 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $11.37 | ↓ -79% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $11.37 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $11.57 | ↓ -78% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $11.57 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $11.57 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $11.57 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $11.57 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $11.69 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $11.76 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $11.92 | ↓ -78% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $12.38 | ↓ -77% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $14.46 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $17.36 | ↓ -67% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $18.51 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $20.16 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $21.58 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $21.98 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $25.62 | ↓ -52% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $28.56 | ↓ -46% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $29.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $30.08 | ↓ -44% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $34.71 | ↓ -35% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $37.80 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $38.18 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $40.50 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $42.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $49.35 | ↓ -7% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Lactic acid at other Texas hospitals
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $255.68 | $10.41 – $44.54 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $145.94 | $9.72 – $182.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $105.31 | $12.00 – $157.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $143.48 | $9.72 – $179.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $145.94 | $9.72 – $182.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $105.31 | $10.40 – $157.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $105.31 | $8.00 – $157.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $143.48 | $9.72 – $215.22 |