Virus isolation addl studies ea at St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine
511 E. Hospital Street, San Augustine, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1578547345
$16.05
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$107.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$16.97 with TCHP vs $96.30 with Galaxy — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.97 | ↑ +6% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $19.26 | ↑ +20% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↑ +26% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↑ +26% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $20.81 | ↑ +30% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $21.21 | ↑ +32% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Other Plans | $21.21 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $21.21 | ↑ +32% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $21.41 | ↑ +33% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $21.61 | ↑ +35% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.61 | ↑ +53% |
| MD Save | Commercial|All Plans | $25.25 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $26.75 | ↑ +67% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $27.68 | ↑ +72% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $27.68 | ↑ +72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|CHIP | $27.68 | ↑ +72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $27.68 | ↑ +72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $27.68 | ↑ +72% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $27.68 | ↑ +72% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $27.68 | ↑ +72% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $28.23 | ↑ +76% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $28.51 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.06 | ↑ +81% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $31.82 | ↑ +98% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $38.38 | ↑ +139% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $43.46 | ↑ +171% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $43.46 | ↑ +171% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $49.55 | ↑ +209% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $52.52 | ↑ +227% |
| Angelina County | Commercial|All Plans | $55.15 | ↑ +244% |
| Brookshire Brothers | Commercial|All Plans | $60.60 | ↑ +278% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $66.66 | ↑ +315% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $70.70 | ↑ +340% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $72.76 | ↑ +353% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $74.90 | ↑ +367% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $74.90 | ↑ +367% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $81.61 | ↑ +408% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $86.73 | ↑ +440% |
| Galaxy | Commercial|All Plans | $96.30 | ↑ +500% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Virus isolation addl studies ea at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $269.02 | $18.18 – $77.77 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $235.31 | $10.00 – $294.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $235.31 | $12.00 – $206.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $235.31 | $12.00 – $172.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $235.31 | $10.00 – $294.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $235.31 | $12.00 – $206.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $235.31 | $8.00 – $206.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $235.31 | $12.00 – $206.70 |