Culture typing immunologic at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine

511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$10.50

Cash price

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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.

$70.00

Gross charge

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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.

$4.35 with TCHP vs $63.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
TCHP Medicaid|All Plans $4.35 ↓ -59%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $5.18 ↓ -51%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $5.18 ↓ -51%
Wellpoint Medicare|All Plans $5.34 ↓ -49%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Other Plans $5.44 ↓ -48%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $5.44 ↓ -48%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $5.44 ↓ -48%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|PPO $5.49 ↓ -48%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $5.54 ↓ -47%
MD Save Commercial|All Plans $6.47 ↓ -38%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $7.10 ↓ -32%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $7.10 ↓ -32%
UNITED Medicaid|CHIP $7.10 ↓ -32%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $7.10 ↓ -32%
UNITED Medicaid|STARKIDS $7.10 ↓ -32%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STARPLUS $7.10 ↓ -32%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|All Other Plans $7.10 ↓ -32%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicaid|STARPLUS $7.24 ↓ -31%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STARPLUS $7.31 ↓ -30%
BCBS Medicaid|All Plans $7.46 ↓ -29%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $8.16 ↓ -22%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO $9.84 ↓ -6%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $11.15 ↑ +6%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STAR $11.15 ↑ +6%
United Commercial|Exchange $12.60 ↑ +20%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $12.71 ↑ +21%
Entrust Commercial|All Plans $13.47 ↑ +28%
Angelina County Commercial|All Plans $14.14 ↑ +35%
Brookshire Brothers Commercial|All Plans $15.54 ↑ +48%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $16.10 ↑ +53%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $17.09 ↑ +63%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $17.50 ↑ +67%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $18.13 ↑ +73%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $20.93 ↑ +99%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $22.43 ↑ +114%
PHCS Commercial|All Plans $47.60 ↑ +353%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $49.00 ↑ +367%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $49.00 ↑ +367%
Galaxy Commercial|All Plans $63.00 ↑ +500%

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