Blood typing patient serum at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$27.60
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.
$184.00
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.
$13.73 with SUPERIOR vs $161.82 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 |
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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $13.73 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $13.73 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $13.73 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $13.73 | ↓ -50% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.73 | ↓ -50% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $13.73 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $13.73 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $14.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $14.14 | ↓ -49% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.42 | ↓ -48% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $21.56 | ↓ -22% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $22.24 | ↓ -19% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $30.62 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $43.50 | ↑ +58% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $55.68 | ↑ +102% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $56.15 | ↑ +103% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $56.15 | ↑ +103% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $56.15 | ↑ +103% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $56.15 | ↑ +103% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $56.15 | ↑ +103% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $56.71 | ↑ +105% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $57.83 | ↑ +110% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $60.08 | ↑ +118% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $63.52 | ↑ +130% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $66.12 | ↑ +140% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $70.19 | ↑ +154% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $70.31 | ↑ +155% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $84.23 | ↑ +205% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $86.30 | ↑ +213% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $88.74 | ↑ +222% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $109.62 | ↑ +297% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $110.32 | ↑ +300% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $117.01 | ↑ +324% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $118.32 | ↑ +329% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $121.80 | ↑ +341% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $135.06 | ↑ +389% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $140.24 | ↑ +408% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $156.60 | ↑ +467% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $161.82 | ↑ +486% |
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Blood typing patient serum at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $115.51 | $10.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $96.88 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $76.80 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $115.51 | $10.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $96.88 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $96.88 | $8.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $76.80 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $115.51 | $10.00 – $151.53 |