Culture fungi other (except blood) at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$20.25
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.
$135.00
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.
$7.06 with UNITED vs $121.50 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 | $7.06 | ↓ -65% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7.06 | ↓ -65% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.06 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.06 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $7.06 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $7.06 | ↓ -65% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.06 | ↓ -65% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.27 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7.27 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.41 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -58% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -58% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -58% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -58% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $8.49 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $8.66 | ↓ -57% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $9.00 | ↓ -56% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $10.51 | ↓ -48% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $11.08 | ↓ -45% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $11.44 | ↓ -44% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $12.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $13.46 | ↓ -34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.74 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $15.98 | ↓ -21% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $21.87 | ↑ +8% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $25.23 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $27.75 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $29.44 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $33.75 | ↑ +67% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $33.98 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $35.91 | ↑ +77% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.20 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $51.30 | ↑ +153% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $68.85 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $85.05 | ↑ +320% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $91.80 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $94.50 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $121.50 | ↑ +500% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $249.31 | $7.57 – $32.38 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $163.16 | $7.06 – $203.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $167.36 | $12.00 – $251.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $128.74 | $7.06 – $160.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $163.16 | $7.06 – $203.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $167.36 | $7.55 – $251.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $167.36 | $7.06 – $251.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $128.74 | $7.06 – $193.10 |