Sodium chloride 0.9 % intravenous solution at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$47.66
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.
$317.73
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.
$2.90 with Cigna vs $285.96 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2.90 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.09 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $11.21 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $31.89 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $32.93 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $33.53 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $38.59 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $120.74 | ↑ +153% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $162.05 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $200.17 | ↑ +320% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $216.06 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $222.42 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $285.96 | ↑ +500% |
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Sodium chloride 0.9 % intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $28.66 | $57.37 – $57.37 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $45.90 | $2.40 – $26.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $69.85 | $2.40 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $63.36 | $2.40 – $37.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $45.90 | $2.40 – $26.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $69.85 | $2.40 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $69.85 | $2.40 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $63.36 | $2.40 – $45.00 |