Puncture arterial withdrawal blood for diagnosis at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$28.05
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.
$187.00
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.
$40.98 with United vs $361.11 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $40.98 | ↑ +46% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.05 | ↑ +139% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $71.96 | ↑ +157% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $89.40 | ↑ +219% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $113.62 | ↑ +305% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $126.65 | ↑ +352% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $129.11 | ↑ +360% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↑ +360% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↑ +360% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↑ +360% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↑ +360% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $130.38 | ↑ +365% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $130.40 | ↑ +365% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $132.98 | ↑ +374% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↑ +393% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $160.27 | ↑ +471% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $161.39 | ↑ +475% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $163.55 | ↑ +483% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $167.63 | ↑ +498% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $179.90 | ↑ +541% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $192.59 | ↑ +587% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↑ +590% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $289.00 | ↑ +930% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $312.96 | ↑ +1016% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $361.11 | ↑ +1187% |
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Puncture arterial withdrawal blood for diagnosis at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $287.08 | $136.29 – $136.29 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $127.50 | $10.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $96.17 | $12.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $94.55 | $12.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $127.50 | $10.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $96.17 | $12.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $96.17 | $8.00 – $3,235.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $94.55 | $12.00 – $316.45 |