Folic acid 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

$62.25

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.

$415.00

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.

$6.30 with United vs $62.83 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.

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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
United Commercial|Exchange $6.30 ↓ -90%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $8.05 ↓ -87%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $8.75 ↓ -86%
TCHP Medicaid|All Plans $12.35 ↓ -80%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $14.70 ↓ -76%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $14.70 ↓ -76%
Wellpoint Medicare|All Plans $15.14 ↓ -76%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Other Plans $15.44 ↓ -75%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $15.44 ↓ -75%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $15.44 ↓ -75%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|PPO $15.58 ↓ -75%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $15.73 ↓ -75%
MD Save Commercial|All Plans $18.38 ↓ -70%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STARPLUS $20.14 ↓ -68%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|All Other Plans $20.14 ↓ -68%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $20.14 ↓ -68%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $20.14 ↓ -68%
UNITED Medicaid|STARKIDS $20.14 ↓ -68%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $20.14 ↓ -68%
UNITED Medicaid|CHIP $20.14 ↓ -68%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicaid|STARPLUS $20.54 ↓ -67%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STARPLUS $20.74 ↓ -67%
BCBS Medicaid|All Plans $21.15 ↓ -66%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $23.16 ↓ -63%
PHCS Commercial|All Plans $23.80 ↓ -62%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $24.50 ↓ -61%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $24.50 ↓ -61%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO $27.93 ↓ -55%
Galaxy Commercial|All Plans $31.50 ↓ -49%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $31.62 ↓ -49%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STAR $31.62 ↓ -49%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $35.00 ↓ -44%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $35.00 ↓ -44%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $35.00 ↓ -44%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $36.05 ↓ -42%
Entrust Commercial|All Plans $38.22 ↓ -39%
Angelina County Commercial|All Plans $40.13 ↓ -36%
Brookshire Brothers Commercial|All Plans $44.10 ↓ -29%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $62.83 ↑ +1%

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