Biopsy bone trocar/needle superficial at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$720.90
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.
$4,806.00
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.
$355.00 with United vs $4,288.92 with Brookshire Brothers — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $355.00 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $473.00 | ↓ -34% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $511.75 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $527.10 | ↓ -27% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $527.10 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $590.14 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $792.03 | ↑ +10% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $829.03 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $905.92 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $978.39 | ↑ +36% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,056.04 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,087.10 | ↑ +51% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,141.20 | ↑ +58% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $1,397.70 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,531.48 | ↑ +112% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,531.48 | ↑ +112% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,531.48 | ↑ +112% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,531.48 | ↑ +112% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,531.48 | ↑ +112% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,546.79 | ↑ +115% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,577.42 | ↑ +119% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,638.68 | ↑ +127% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $1,914.35 | ↑ +166% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,016.00 | ↑ +180% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,017.72 | ↑ +180% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,058.90 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,264.79 | ↑ +214% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $2,287.42 | ↑ +217% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,297.22 | ↑ +219% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,717.06 | ↑ +416% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,288.92 | ↑ +495% |
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Biopsy bone trocar/needle superficial at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $2,505.32 | $1,715.75 – $3,432.54 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,859.20 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,309.95 | $71.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,601.82 | $71.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,859.20 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,309.95 | $85.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,309.95 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,601.82 | $71.00 – $4,016.35 |