Aluminum - quest at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$31.80
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.
$212.00
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.
$21.40 with TCHP vs $190.80 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 | $21.40 | ↓ -33% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $25.48 | ↓ -20% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $25.48 | ↓ -20% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $26.24 | ↓ -17% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $26.75 | ↓ -16% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $26.75 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $26.75 | ↓ -16% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $27.01 | ↓ -15% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $27.26 | ↓ -14% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $31.85 | ↑ +0% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $34.91 | ↑ +10% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $34.91 | ↑ +10% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $34.91 | ↑ +10% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $34.91 | ↑ +10% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $34.91 | ↑ +10% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $34.91 | ↑ +10% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $34.91 | ↑ +10% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $35.61 | ↑ +12% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $35.96 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.66 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $38.16 | ↑ +20% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $40.13 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $48.41 | ↑ +52% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.76 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $53.00 | ↑ +67% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $54.81 | ↑ +72% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $54.81 | ↑ +72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $62.49 | ↑ +97% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $66.25 | ↑ +108% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $69.56 | ↑ +119% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $76.44 | ↑ +140% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $84.08 | ↑ +164% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $89.18 | ↑ +180% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $102.94 | ↑ +224% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $110.67 | ↑ +248% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $144.16 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $148.40 | ↑ +367% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $148.40 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $190.80 | ↑ +500% |
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Aluminum - quest at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $123.83 | $10.00 – $154.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $121.48 | $12.00 – $182.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $127.37 | $12.00 – $159.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $123.83 | $10.00 – $154.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $121.48 | $12.00 – $182.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $121.48 | $8.00 – $182.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $127.37 | $12.00 – $191.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $123.83 | $10.00 – $154.79 |