Ultrasound guidance for vascular access at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$384.45
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.
$2,563.00
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.
$37.26 with BCBS-TX vs $2,306.44 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $37.26 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $51.33 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $53.32 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $59.26 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $100.00 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $563.80 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $922.58 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,230.11 | ↑ +220% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,563.26 | ↑ +307% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,742.65 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,793.90 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $2,306.44 | ↑ +500% |
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Ultrasound guidance for vascular access at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,631.77 | $76.31 – $76.31 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $631.95 | $39.64 – $895.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $621.95 | $66.60 – $932.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $605.63 | $66.60 – $757.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $631.95 | $45.39 – $895.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $621.95 | $81.06 – $932.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $621.95 | $321.34 – $932.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $605.63 | $66.60 – $908.45 |