Albumin body fluid quantitative each specimen at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$25.20
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.
$168.00
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.
$6.54 with TCHP vs $150.56 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.54 | ↓ -74% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $7.78 | ↓ -69% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $7.78 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $8.01 | ↓ -68% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -68% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $8.25 | ↓ -67% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $8.32 | ↓ -67% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -61% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.66 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.66 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $10.66 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $10.66 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $10.66 | ↓ -58% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $10.66 | ↓ -58% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.66 | ↓ -58% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $10.87 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $10.98 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.19 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $12.26 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $14.78 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $16.74 | ↓ -34% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $16.74 | ↓ -34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $19.08 | ↓ -24% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $20.23 | ↓ -20% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $21.24 | ↓ -16% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $23.34 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $25.67 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $27.23 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $30.12 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $31.43 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $32.89 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38.48 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $41.82 | ↑ +66% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $113.76 | ↑ +351% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $117.10 | ↑ +365% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $117.10 | ↑ +365% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $150.56 | ↑ +497% |
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Albumin body fluid quantitative each specimen at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $61.52 | $6.08 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $58.98 | $2.08 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $61.52 | $6.54 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $61.52 | $6.54 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $58.98 | $7.00 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $58.98 | $6.54 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $61.52 | $6.54 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $61.52 | $6.54 – $18.67 |