Ventilator initial day at St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin
1201 W Frank Ave, Lufkin, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1396746129
$619.20
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.
$4,128.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $3,715.20 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 | $100.00 | ↓ -84% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $624.88 | ↑ +1% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $624.88 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $624.88 | ↑ +1% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $624.88 | ↑ +1% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $624.88 | ↑ +1% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $631.13 | ↑ +2% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $643.63 | ↑ +4% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $668.62 | ↑ +8% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $781.10 | ↑ +26% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $884.14 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $937.32 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $994.09 | ↑ +61% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,032.00 | ↑ +67% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,133.45 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,138.10 | ↑ +84% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,235.65 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,320.96 | ↑ +113% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,436.73 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,568.64 | ↑ +153% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,657.77 | ↑ +168% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,105.28 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,600.64 | ↑ +320% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,807.04 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,889.60 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $3,715.20 | ↑ +500% |
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Ventilator initial day at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $4,594.20 | $1,788.44 – $1,788.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,002.58 | $567.40 – $2,503.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,501.44 | $309.05 – $2,252.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,879.12 | $375.82 – $2,348.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,002.58 | $534.02 – $2,503.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,501.44 | $481.96 – $2,252.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,501.44 | $775.74 – $3,235.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,879.12 | $589.57 – $2,818.67 |