Covid-19 lab test non-cdc at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$31.35
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.
$209.00
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.
$37.62 with United vs $207.29 with BCBS-TX — 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $37.62 | ↑ +20% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $47.21 | ↑ +51% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.07 | ↑ +53% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↑ +64% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $52.25 | ↑ +67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $52.85 | ↑ +69% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $53.88 | ↑ +72% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $53.88 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $53.88 | ↑ +72% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $54.39 | ↑ +73% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $54.90 | ↑ +75% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $64.14 | ↑ +105% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $70.29 | ↑ +124% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $70.29 | ↑ +124% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $70.29 | ↑ +124% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $70.29 | ↑ +124% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $70.29 | ↑ +124% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $70.29 | ↑ +124% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $70.29 | ↑ +124% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $71.70 | ↑ +129% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $72.40 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $73.80 | ↑ +135% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $80.82 | ↑ +158% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $97.49 | ↑ +211% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $100.00 | ↑ +219% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $110.36 | ↑ +252% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $110.36 | ↑ +252% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $125.82 | ↑ +301% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $133.41 | ↑ +326% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $140.08 | ↑ +347% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $142.12 | ↑ +353% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $146.30 | ↑ +367% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $146.30 | ↑ +367% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $153.93 | ↑ +391% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $169.32 | ↑ +440% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $179.59 | ↑ +473% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $188.10 | ↑ +500% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $207.29 | ↑ +561% |
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Covid-19 lab test non-cdc at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $81.11 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $81.76 | $47.41 – $74.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $97.01 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $83.36 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $92.05 | $40.95 – $197.25 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $89.25 | $36.94 – $255.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $39.90 | $46.18 – $205.20 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $31.35 | $43.10 – $188.10 |