Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$1,356.90
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.
$9,046.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $9,407.84 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $100.00 | ↓ -93% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $706.03 | ↓ -48% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $706.03 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $727.21 | ↓ -46% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $741.33 | ↓ -45% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $748.39 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $784.12 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $784.12 | ↓ -42% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $799.05 | ↓ -41% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $882.54 | ↓ -35% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,176.18 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,456.95 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,628.28 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,661.20 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,668.01 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,810.98 | ↑ +33% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $1,927.46 | ↑ +42% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,080.58 | ↑ +53% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,118.09 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,261.50 | ↑ +67% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $6,151.28 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,332.20 | ↑ +367% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $6,332.20 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $8,141.40 | ↑ +500% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $9,407.84 | ↑ +593% |
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $12,383.32 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $4,974.84 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $2,850.54 | $2,321.60 – $2,321.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $18,772.48 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $1,356.90 | $100.00 – $8,141.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |