Ghs insertion of needle - bone at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$185.90
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.
$1,239.30
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.
$223.08 with United vs $1,996.52 with UNITED — 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 | $223.08 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $239.97 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $285.04 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $289.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $309.83 | ↑ +67% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $351.34 | ↑ +89% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $351.34 | ↑ +89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $361.88 | ↑ +95% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $368.91 | ↑ +98% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $372.42 | ↑ +100% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $396.04 | ↑ +113% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $396.04 | ↑ +113% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $403.58 | ↑ +117% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $439.17 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $534.48 | ↑ +188% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $545.39 | ↑ +193% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $594.06 | ↑ +220% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $599.92 | ↑ +223% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $842.73 | ↑ +353% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $867.51 | ↑ +367% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $867.51 | ↑ +367% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $959.16 | ↑ +416% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,054.02 | ↑ +467% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,115.37 | ↑ +500% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,137.68 | ↑ +512% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,148.84 | ↑ +518% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,171.14 | ↑ +530% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,288.88 | ↑ +593% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $1,751.14 | ↑ +842% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,751.14 | ↑ +842% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,996.52 | ↑ +974% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $447.75 | $454.49 – $4,826.69 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $461.99 | $123.20 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $461.99 | $85.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $461.99 | $238.70 – $987.04 |
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