Myelography neck spine at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$379.35
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.
$2,529.00
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.
$322.85 with Cigna vs $2,591.68 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $322.85 | ↓ -15% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $448.56 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $573.16 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $623.00 | ↑ +64% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $706.03 | ↑ +86% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $706.03 | ↑ +86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $727.21 | ↑ +92% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $741.33 | ↑ +95% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $748.39 | ↑ +97% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $784.12 | ↑ +107% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $784.12 | ↑ +107% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $799.05 | ↑ +111% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $882.54 | ↑ +133% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $933.35 | ↑ +146% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $961.23 | ↑ +153% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $961.23 | ↑ +153% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $961.23 | ↑ +153% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $961.23 | ↑ +153% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $961.23 | ↑ +153% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $980.45 | ↑ +158% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $990.07 | ↑ +161% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,009.29 | ↑ +166% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,176.18 | ↑ +210% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,279.94 | ↑ +237% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,509.13 | ↑ +298% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $1,509.13 | ↑ +298% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,694.56 | ↑ +347% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,720.60 | ↑ +354% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,744.40 | ↑ +360% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,744.40 | ↑ +360% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,763.32 | ↑ +365% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,831.41 | ↑ +383% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $1,927.46 | ↑ +408% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,035.65 | ↑ +437% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,118.09 | ↑ +458% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $2,242.80 | ↑ +491% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $2,591.68 | ↑ +583% |
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Myelography neck spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $875.40 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,088.80 | $224.11 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,133.23 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $875.40 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,088.80 | $120.12 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,088.80 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,133.23 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $875.40 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |