Magnesium at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston

1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$43.13

Cash price

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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.

$287.50

Gross charge

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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.

$5.06 with United vs $28.43 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Commercial|Exchange $5.06 ↓ -88%
CHC Medicaid|CHIP $5.63 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.63 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|CHIP $5.63 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $5.63 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|STARKIDS $5.63 ↓ -87%
TCHP Medicaid|CHIP $5.63 ↓ -87%
TCHP Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.63 ↓ -87%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STARPLUS $5.63 ↓ -87%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.63 ↓ -87%
CHC Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.63 ↓ -87%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicaid|STARPLUS $5.74 ↓ -87%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.80 ↓ -87%
BCBS Medicaid|All Plans $5.91 ↓ -86%
TCHP Medicaid|STAR $6.59 ↓ -85%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $6.59 ↓ -85%
CHC Medicaid|STAR $6.59 ↓ -85%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Other Plans $6.70 ↓ -84%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $6.70 ↓ -84%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $6.70 ↓ -84%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $6.70 ↓ -84%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $6.70 ↓ -84%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|PPO $6.77 ↓ -84%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $6.81 ↓ -84%
Wellpoint Medicare|All Plans $6.90 ↓ -84%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $7.17 ↓ -83%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $8.28 ↓ -81%
MD Save Commercial|All Plans $8.38 ↓ -81%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $10.05 ↓ -77%
Angelina County Commercial|All Plans $10.72 ↓ -75%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $11.04 ↓ -74%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STARPLUS $12.50 ↓ -71%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO $12.73 ↓ -70%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $14.03 ↓ -67%
PHCS Commercial|All Plans $15.64 ↓ -64%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $16.10 ↓ -63%
Entrust Commercial|All Plans $17.42 ↓ -60%
Brookshire Brothers Commercial|All Plans $20.10 ↓ -53%
Galaxy Commercial|All Plans $20.70 ↓ -52%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $22.11 ↓ -49%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $23.00 ↓ -47%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $23.00 ↓ -47%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $28.43 ↓ -34%

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