Middle cerebral artery echo at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$48.90
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.
$326.00
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.
$71.51 with United vs $325.03 with BCBS-TX — 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 | $71.51 | ↑ +46% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↑ +118% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↑ +118% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $106.51 | ↑ +118% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↑ +118% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↑ +118% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $107.58 | ↑ +120% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↑ +124% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $117.02 | ↑ +139% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $131.99 | ↑ +170% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $131.99 | ↑ +170% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $131.99 | ↑ +170% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $131.99 | ↑ +170% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $131.99 | ↑ +170% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $131.99 | ↑ +170% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $133.14 | ↑ +172% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $134.63 | ↑ +175% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $134.67 | ↑ +175% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $134.67 | ↑ +175% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $138.59 | ↑ +183% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $138.71 | ↑ +184% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $154.43 | ↑ +216% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $154.43 | ↑ +216% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $156.02 | ↑ +219% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $157.56 | ↑ +222% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.77 | ↑ +227% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $162.95 | ↑ +233% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $165.76 | ↑ +239% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $198.27 | ↑ +305% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $210.71 | ↑ +331% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $221.03 | ↑ +352% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $227.53 | ↑ +365% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $248.09 | ↑ +407% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $269.36 | ↑ +451% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $290.29 | ↑ +494% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $292.53 | ↑ +498% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $298.97 | ↑ +511% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $301.50 | ↑ +517% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $310.80 | ↑ +536% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $325.03 | ↑ +565% |
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Middle cerebral artery echo at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $332.64 | $89.21 – $415.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $267.75 | $55.11 – $401.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $267.75 | $89.21 – $334.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $332.64 | $89.21 – $415.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $267.75 | $95.45 – $401.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $267.75 | $89.21 – $401.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $267.75 | $89.21 – $401.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $332.64 | $89.21 – $415.80 |