I131 iodide cap, rx at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$31.22
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.
$208.08
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.
$19.75 with HUMANA vs $216.41 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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| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $19.75 | ↓ -37% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $19.75 | ↓ -37% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $20.34 | ↓ -35% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $20.74 | ↓ -34% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $20.93 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $22.95 | ↓ -26% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $22.95 | ↓ -26% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $23.39 | ↓ -25% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $24.69 | ↓ -21% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $34.43 | ↑ +10% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $37.46 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $44.28 | ↑ +42% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $45.72 | ↑ +46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $46.55 | ↑ +49% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $47.86 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $52.02 | ↑ +67% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $53.59 | ↑ +72% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $53.92 | ↑ +73% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $59.25 | ↑ +90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $76.42 | ↑ +145% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $141.50 | ↑ +353% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $145.66 | ↑ +367% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $145.66 | ↑ +367% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $187.28 | ↑ +500% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $216.41 | ↑ +593% |
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I131 iodide cap, rx at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $481.12 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $42.00 | $77.38 – $82.61 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $391.11 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $468.71 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $24.85 | $18.62 – $71.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $31.22 | $20.82 – $187.28 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $24.85 | $18.46 – $71.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $24.85 | $18.46 – $71.00 |