Pet image w/ct lmtd 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

$1,023.30

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.

$6,822.00

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.

$1,460.95 with CIGNA HEALTHSPRING vs $6,139.80 with Galaxy — 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
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Other Plans $1,460.95 ↑ +43%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $1,460.95 ↑ +43%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $1,460.95 ↑ +43%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $1,460.95 ↑ +43%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $1,460.95 ↑ +43%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|PPO $1,475.56 ↑ +44%
United Commercial|Exchange $1,500.84 ↑ +47%
Wellpoint Medicare|All Plans $1,504.78 ↑ +47%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $1,563.22 ↑ +53%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO $1,581.95 ↑ +55%
MD Save Commercial|All Plans $1,826.19 ↑ +78%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $1,876.58 ↑ +83%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $1,876.58 ↑ +83%
CHC Medicaid|All Other Plans $1,876.58 ↑ +83%
CHC Medicaid|CHIP $1,876.58 ↑ +83%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|All Other Plans $1,876.58 ↑ +83%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STARPLUS $1,876.58 ↑ +83%
TCHP Medicaid|All Other Plans $1,876.58 ↑ +83%
TCHP Medicaid|CHIP $1,876.58 ↑ +83%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicaid|STARPLUS $1,914.11 ↑ +87%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $1,932.88 ↑ +89%
BCBS Medicaid|All Plans $1,970.41 ↑ +93%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $2,191.43 ↑ +114%
TCHP Medicaid|STAR $2,195.60 ↑ +115%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $2,195.60 ↑ +115%
CHC Medicaid|STAR $2,195.60 ↑ +115%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $2,270.66 ↑ +122%
Angelina County Commercial|All Plans $2,358.77 ↑ +131%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $2,455.92 ↑ +140%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $2,756.00 ↑ +169%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $3,274.56 ↑ +220%
Entrust Commercial|All Plans $3,833.00 ↑ +275%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $4,161.42 ↑ +307%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STARPLUS $4,166.01 ↑ +307%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $4,333.17 ↑ +323%
Brookshire Brothers Commercial|All Plans $4,422.69 ↑ +332%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $4,553.27 ↑ +345%
PHCS Commercial|All Plans $4,638.96 ↑ +353%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $4,775.40 ↑ +367%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $5,488.68 ↑ +436%
Galaxy Commercial|All Plans $6,139.80 ↑ +500%

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