Pr removal foreign body external auditory canal without anesthesia at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$74.07
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.
$493.78
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.
$71.96 with BCBS-TX vs $444.41 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $71.96 | ↓ -3% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $74.07 | ↑ +0% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $74.07 | ↑ +0% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $74.07 | ↑ +0% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $74.07 | ↑ +0% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $74.07 | ↑ +0% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $74.07 | ↑ +0% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $75.55 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $77.78 | ↑ +5% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $98.76 | ↑ +33% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $116.29 | ↑ +57% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $121.84 | ↑ +64% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $121.84 | ↑ +64% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $121.84 | ↑ +64% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $121.84 | ↑ +64% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $121.84 | ↑ +64% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $123.06 | ↑ +66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $125.50 | ↑ +69% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $130.37 | ↑ +76% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $152.30 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $153.00 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $160.27 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $163.55 | ↑ +121% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $165.17 | ↑ +123% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $179.90 | ↑ +143% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $180.22 | ↑ +143% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $182.76 | ↑ +147% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $187.64 | ↑ +153% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $204.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $251.83 | ↑ +240% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $289.00 | ↑ +290% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $292.86 | ↑ +295% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $311.09 | ↑ +320% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $335.78 | ↑ +353% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $337.92 | ↑ +356% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $345.65 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $444.41 | ↑ +500% |
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