Insert cath pleura with image at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$516.00
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.
$3,440.00
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.
$446.27 with SUPERIOR vs $4,236.66 with Brookshire Brothers — 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $446.27 | ↓ -14% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $446.27 | ↓ -14% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $446.27 | ↓ -14% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $446.27 | ↓ -14% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $446.27 | ↓ -14% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $446.27 | ↓ -14% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $446.27 | ↓ -14% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $455.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $459.66 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $468.58 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $581.94 | ↑ +13% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $700.64 | ↑ +36% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $700.64 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $743.59 | ↑ +44% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $798.82 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $808.25 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,076.55 | ↑ +109% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,412.22 | ↑ +174% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,412.22 | ↑ +174% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,454.59 | ↑ +182% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,482.83 | ↑ +187% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,496.95 | ↑ +190% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,541.76 | ↑ +199% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,541.76 | ↑ +199% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,571.12 | ↑ +204% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $1,765.28 | ↑ +242% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,016.00 | ↑ +291% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,198.44 | ↑ +326% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,263.10 | ↑ +339% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,263.10 | ↑ +339% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,312.64 | ↑ +348% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,397.76 | ↑ +365% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,446.70 | ↑ +374% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,691.36 | ↑ +422% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $2,909.70 | ↑ +464% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,362.32 | ↑ +552% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $3,855.36 | ↑ +647% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,236.66 | ↑ +721% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,239.02 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,952.51 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,579.11 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,239.02 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,952.51 | $85.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,952.51 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,579.11 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,239.02 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |