Gastro/jejuno tube, std at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$60.96
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.
$406.35
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.
$23.06 with United vs $133.23 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $23.06 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.47 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $32.03 | ↓ -47% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +43% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $89.67 | ↑ +47% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $89.67 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $100.00 | ↑ +64% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $115.29 | ↑ +89% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $133.23 | ↑ +119% |
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Gastro/jejuno tube, std at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $1,235.37 | not published |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $360.52 | $216.32 – $772.54 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $765.10 | $100.00 – $536.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $236.43 | $4.85 – $74.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $60.96 | $32.03 – $115.29 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $765.10 | $100.00 – $536.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $765.10 | $100.00 – $536.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $236.43 | $18.62 – $260.40 |