Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$27.54
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.
$183.60
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.
$29.48 with UNITED vs $155.70 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|All Other Plans | $29.48 | ↑ +7% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.48 | ↑ +7% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $29.48 | ↑ +7% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $29.48 | ↑ +7% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $29.48 | ↑ +7% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $29.48 | ↑ +7% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $29.48 | ↑ +7% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $30.07 | ↑ +9% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $30.36 | ↑ +10% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $30.36 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $30.95 | ↑ +12% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +27% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +27% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +27% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +27% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +27% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $35.44 | ↑ +29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $36.14 | ↑ +31% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $37.55 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $43.25 | ↑ +57% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $43.86 | ↑ +59% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $46.28 | ↑ +68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $47.76 | ↑ +73% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $52.64 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $55.36 | ↑ +101% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $56.14 | ↑ +104% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $65.74 | ↑ +139% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $65.74 | ↑ +139% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $66.67 | ↑ +142% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $88.23 | ↑ +220% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $91.23 | ↑ +231% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $105.27 | ↑ +282% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $108.99 | ↑ +296% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $115.80 | ↑ +320% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $117.64 | ↑ +327% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $121.10 | ↑ +340% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $122.82 | ↑ +346% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $141.76 | ↑ +415% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $151.07 | ↑ +449% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $155.70 | ↑ +465% |
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Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $241.92 | $76.64 – $152.99 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $500.00 | $28.89 – $144.97 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $862.48 | $28.89 – $144.97 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |