Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$516.97
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.
$3,446.42
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.
$155.10 with TCHP 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $155.10 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $155.10 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $181.47 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $186.12 | ↓ -64% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $186.12 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $220.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $360.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $480.00 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $610.00 | ↑ +18% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $680.00 | ↑ +32% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $700.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $900.00 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,076.55 | ↑ +108% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +201% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +201% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +201% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +201% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +201% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,571.52 | ↑ +204% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↑ +210% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↑ +222% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $1,944.95 | ↑ +276% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,016.00 | ↑ +290% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↑ +351% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,397.76 | ↑ +364% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $2,414.69 | ↑ +367% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,446.70 | ↑ +373% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,691.36 | ↑ +421% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,923.87 | ↑ +659% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,527.54 | ↑ +776% |
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