Assay of glutathione at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$17.10
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.
$114.00
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.
$12.98 with UNITED vs $102.60 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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| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $12.98 | ↓ -24% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.98 | ↓ -24% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.98 | ↓ -24% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.98 | ↓ -24% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $12.98 | ↓ -24% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $12.98 | ↓ -24% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.98 | ↓ -24% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $13.24 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $13.37 | ↓ -22% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $13.37 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.63 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $15.45 | ↓ -10% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $15.45 | ↓ -10% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $15.45 | ↓ -10% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $15.45 | ↓ -10% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $15.45 | ↓ -10% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $15.60 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $15.91 | ↓ -7% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $16.53 | ↓ -3% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $19.31 | ↑ +13% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $20.38 | ↑ +19% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $21.03 | ↑ +23% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $23.18 | ↑ +36% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $24.72 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $28.50 | ↑ +67% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $28.95 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $29.36 | ↑ +72% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $36.48 | ↑ +113% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $40.17 | ↑ +135% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $43.32 | ↑ +153% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $46.35 | ↑ +171% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $50.99 | ↑ +198% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $54.08 | ↑ +216% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $58.14 | ↑ +240% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $62.42 | ↑ +265% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $67.28 | ↑ +293% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $71.82 | ↑ +320% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $77.52 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $79.80 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $102.60 | ↑ +500% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $484.34 | $10.00 – $210.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $484.34 | $12.00 – $252.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $484.34 | $12.00 – $191.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $484.34 | $10.00 – $210.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $484.34 | $12.00 – $252.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $484.34 | $8.00 – $252.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $484.34 | $12.00 – $229.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $484.34 | $10.00 – $210.75 |