Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston
1717 Highway 59 Bypass, Livingston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689650616
$12.66
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.
$84.36
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.
$15.10 with CHC vs $77.78 with Cigna — 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 | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|CHIP | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.10 | ↑ +19% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.40 | ↑ +22% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.55 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.86 | ↑ +25% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $17.67 | ↑ +40% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $17.67 | ↑ +40% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $17.67 | ↑ +40% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $17.98 | ↑ +42% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $17.98 | ↑ +42% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $17.98 | ↑ +42% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $17.98 | ↑ +42% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $17.98 | ↑ +42% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $18.16 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $18.27 | ↑ +44% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $18.52 | ↑ +46% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $18.56 | ↑ +47% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $19.24 | ↑ +52% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $22.48 | ↑ +78% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $26.97 | ↑ +113% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $28.77 | ↑ +127% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.37 | ↑ +140% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $33.52 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $34.16 | ↑ +170% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $40.50 | ↑ +220% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $46.75 | ↑ +269% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $51.46 | ↑ +306% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $53.94 | ↑ +326% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $57.37 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $59.06 | ↑ +367% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $59.33 | ↑ +369% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $62.93 | ↑ +397% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $72.64 | ↑ +474% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $75.93 | ↑ +500% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $77.78 | ↑ +514% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $175.85 | $16.18 – $69.22 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $91.11 | $10.00 – $113.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $105.66 | $12.00 – $158.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $91.84 | $12.00 – $114.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $91.11 | $10.00 – $113.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $105.66 | $12.00 – $158.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $105.66 | $8.00 – $158.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $91.84 | $12.00 – $137.75 |