Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$179.40
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.
$1,196.00
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.
$82.52 with BCBS-TX vs $1,243.84 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $82.52 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $94.09 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $94.47 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $100.00 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $102.57 | ↓ -43% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $189.00 | ↑ +5% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $189.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $194.67 | ↑ +9% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $198.45 | ↑ +11% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $200.34 | ↑ +12% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $209.11 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $209.11 | ↑ +17% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $213.09 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $215.28 | ↑ +20% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $236.25 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $275.08 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $299.00 | ↑ +67% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $313.67 | ↑ +75% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $515.97 | ↑ +188% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $567.00 | ↑ +216% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $813.28 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $837.20 | ↑ +367% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $837.20 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $1,076.40 | ↑ +500% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,243.84 | ↑ +593% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,833.06 | $148.46 – $148.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $488.60 | $118.38 – $610.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $558.06 | $114.87 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $527.15 | $105.43 – $658.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $488.60 | $90.23 – $610.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $558.06 | $142.29 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $558.06 | $288.33 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $527.15 | $116.45 – $790.73 |