Smear wet mount at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$26.85
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.
$179.00
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.
$4.89 with CHC vs $159.30 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.
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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| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.89 | ↓ -82% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $5.04 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.13 | ↓ -81% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $5.72 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $5.72 | ↓ -79% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $5.72 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -78% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -78% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $5.88 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $5.92 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $5.99 | ↓ -78% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $6.23 | ↓ -77% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $7.28 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $9.31 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $10.86 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $11.06 | ↓ -59% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $15.13 | ↓ -44% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $17.46 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $19.21 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $20.37 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $23.51 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $25.41 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $38.94 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.72 | ↑ +137% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $84.96 | ↑ +216% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $107.97 | ↑ +302% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $120.36 | ↑ +348% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $123.90 | ↑ +361% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $159.30 | ↑ +493% |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $63.11 | $4.89 – $78.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $75.59 | $4.89 – $94.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $68.63 | $5.23 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $68.63 | $4.89 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $63.11 | $4.89 – $94.66 |