Insert cath pleura without image at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$439.35
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.
$2,929.00
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.
$594.35 with UNITED vs $5,033.67 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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| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $594.35 | ↑ +35% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $594.35 | ↑ +35% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $594.35 | ↑ +35% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $594.35 | ↑ +35% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $594.35 | ↑ +35% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $594.35 | ↑ +35% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $594.35 | ↑ +35% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $606.24 | ↑ +38% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $612.18 | ↑ +39% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $612.18 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $624.07 | ↑ +42% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $761.00 | ↑ +73% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $933.13 | ↑ +112% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $962.85 | ↑ +119% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,014.00 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,027.88 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,113.02 | ↑ +153% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,325.40 | ↑ +202% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,493.79 | ↑ +240% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,793.07 | ↑ +308% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,793.07 | ↑ +308% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,793.07 | ↑ +308% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,793.07 | ↑ +308% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,793.07 | ↑ +308% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,811.00 | ↑ +312% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,845.27 | ↑ +320% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,846.86 | ↑ +320% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,918.58 | ↑ +337% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,991.72 | ↑ +353% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,016.00 | ↑ +359% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,050.30 | ↑ +367% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $2,241.34 | ↑ +410% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,289.38 | ↑ +421% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,336.10 | ↑ +432% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,569.71 | ↑ +485% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $2,636.10 | ↑ +500% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $2,684.62 | ↑ +511% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,689.61 | ↑ +512% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $4,362.51 | ↑ +893% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $5,033.67 | ↑ +1046% |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,549.87 | $564.97 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,157.58 | $71.00 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,768.26 | $71.00 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,549.87 | $564.97 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,157.58 | $85.00 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,157.58 | $564.97 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,768.26 | $71.00 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,549.87 | $564.97 – $4,713.77 |