Culture anaerobic except blood at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$113.85
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.
$759.00
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.
$6.30 with United vs $40.36 with Cigna — 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 | $6.30 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.95 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $8.75 | ↓ -92% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -92% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $9.75 | ↓ -91% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.94 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.94 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $9.94 | ↓ -91% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $10.04 | ↓ -91% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $10.13 | ↓ -91% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $11.84 | ↓ -90% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.98 | ↓ -89% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.98 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.98 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.98 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $12.98 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $12.98 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $12.98 | ↓ -89% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $13.24 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $13.37 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.63 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $14.91 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $17.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $20.38 | ↓ -82% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $20.38 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $23.23 | ↓ -80% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $23.80 | ↓ -79% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.50 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $24.50 | ↓ -78% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $24.62 | ↓ -78% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $25.85 | ↓ -77% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $28.41 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $31.25 | ↓ -73% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $31.50 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $33.15 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $35.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $40.36 | ↓ -65% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $265.91 | $8.52 – $36.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $208.06 | $7.95 – $56.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $155.83 | $8.88 – $64.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $188.95 | $7.95 – $53.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $208.06 | $7.95 – $56.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $155.83 | $8.51 – $64.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $155.83 | $7.95 – $64.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $188.95 | $7.95 – $64.75 |