Tc-99m mebrofenin at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$157.65
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.
$1,051.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $945.90 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $100.00 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $117.91 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $121.77 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $123.98 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $142.71 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $231.22 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $378.36 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $504.48 | ↑ +220% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $641.11 | ↑ +307% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $714.68 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $735.70 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $945.90 | ↑ +500% |
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Tc-99m mebrofenin at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $893.78 | $108.00 – $646.54 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $1,280.09 | $108.00 – $646.54 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $1,328.96 | $108.00 – $646.54 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $239.40 | $60.06 – $498.13 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $103.60 | $49.59 – $296.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $71.05 | $51.73 – $365.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $157.65 | $100.00 – $945.90 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $769.84 | $108.00 – $646.54 |