Egd guide wire insertion at Covenant Medical Center

3615 19th St, Lubbock, TX · Providence · · NPI 1972517365

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 11, 2026

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Cash price

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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.

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Gross charge

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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.

$894.72 with Scott And White vs $6,330.82 with Capstar — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Scott And White Individual Bsw Premier Exchange $894.72
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $911.12
Superior Healthplan Wellcare Medicare Managed Care Plan $956.67
Unitedhealthcare Medicare Managed Care Plan $961.23
Scott And White Group Bsw Premier/Covenant Preferred Other Commercial Plan $1,082.32
Bcbs Blue Essentials Hmo $1,202.46
Bcbs Par Traditional $1,391.08
Scott And White Group Bsw Plus All Commercial Plans $1,482.19
Bcbs Ers Blue Essentials For Healthselect Members Hmo $1,595.42
Bcbs Ppo $1,666.15
Phcs All Commercial Plans $2,150.00
Aetna Preferred Other Commercial Plan $2,311.24
Aetna New Business Tier 1 Other Commercial Plan $2,875.00
Covenant Preferred All Commercial Plans $3,218.00
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $4,554.00
Aetna All Commercial Plans $4,566.00
Cigna New Buisness Other Commercial Plan $4,574.00
Cigna Oap $4,711.00
Capstar All Commercial Plans $6,330.82

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Egd guide wire insertion at other Texas hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Covenant Children's Hospital Lubbock not published $879.87 – $7,034.24
St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center Pasadena $727.97 $1,247.94 – $1,559.93
Adventhealth Rollins Brook Lampasas not published $982.40 – $2,234.24
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Dallas not published $334.95 – $4,063.00
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA Suite 110 not published $334.95 – $3,421.00
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL Frisco not published $334.95 – $4,063.00
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION College Station not published $358.40 – $3,421.00
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK Cedar Park not published $334.95 – $3,421.00

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