Echo guide for artery repair at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$289.50
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.
$1,930.00
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.
$276.77 with HUMANA vs $1,893.84 with Entrust — 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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| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $276.77 | ↓ -4% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $276.77 | ↓ -4% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $285.07 | ↓ -2% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $290.61 | ↑ +0% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $293.38 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $309.06 | ↑ +7% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $309.06 | ↑ +7% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $314.94 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $327.25 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $327.78 | ↑ +13% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $345.96 | ↑ +20% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $352.88 | ↑ +22% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $376.82 | ↑ +30% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $376.82 | ↑ +30% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $376.82 | ↑ +30% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $376.82 | ↑ +30% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $376.82 | ↑ +30% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $384.36 | ↑ +33% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $388.12 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $395.66 | ↑ +37% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $418.83 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $450.84 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $455.25 | ↑ +57% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $463.59 | ↑ +60% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $468.25 | ↑ +62% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $520.47 | ↑ +80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $591.61 | ↑ +104% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $591.61 | ↑ +104% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $674.51 | ↑ +133% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $755.58 | ↑ +161% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $756.04 | ↑ +161% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $830.31 | ↑ +187% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,238.28 | ↑ +328% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,274.70 | ↑ +340% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,274.70 | ↑ +340% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $1,638.90 | ↑ +466% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,893.84 | ↑ +554% |
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Echo guide for artery repair at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $687.35 | $206.06 – $859.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $512.15 | $105.42 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $612.68 | $206.06 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $687.35 | $206.06 – $859.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $512.15 | $206.06 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $512.15 | $260.96 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $612.68 | $206.06 – $919.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $687.35 | $206.06 – $859.18 |