Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$28.05
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.
$187.00
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.
$29.48 with TCHP vs $168.30 with Galaxy — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.48 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $33.66 | ↑ +20% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +25% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $36.14 | ↑ +29% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $36.84 | ↑ +31% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $36.84 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $36.84 | ↑ +31% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $37.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $37.55 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.01 | ↑ +53% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $43.86 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $46.75 | ↑ +67% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $48.07 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $48.07 | ↑ +71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $48.07 | ↑ +71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $48.07 | ↑ +71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $48.07 | ↑ +71% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $48.07 | ↑ +71% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $48.07 | ↑ +71% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $49.03 | ↑ +75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $49.51 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.47 | ↑ +80% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $55.26 | ↑ +97% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $66.67 | ↑ +138% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $75.47 | ↑ +169% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $75.47 | ↑ +169% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $86.05 | ↑ +207% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $91.23 | ↑ +225% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $95.80 | ↑ +242% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $105.27 | ↑ +275% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $115.80 | ↑ +313% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $122.82 | ↑ +338% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $127.16 | ↑ +353% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $130.90 | ↑ +367% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $130.90 | ↑ +367% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $141.76 | ↑ +405% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $151.07 | ↑ +439% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $168.30 | ↑ +500% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $430.40 | $31.58 – $135.10 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $849.00 | $2.25 – $84.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $849.00 | $0.77 – $84.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $849.00 | $2.90 – $84.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $849.00 | $2.94 – $84.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $849.00 | $2.90 – $84.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $849.00 | $3.44 – $84.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $849.00 | $2.90 – $84.22 |