Car seat/bed test additional 30 minutes at MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL
7218 Crawford Rd, Argyle, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1306897277
$24.90
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.
$24.90
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.
$1.74 with Superior Health Plan vs $144.86 with Humana — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $1.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $1.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $3.36 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $3.36 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $3.49 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4.38 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $4.96 | ↓ -80% |
| Oscar | HIX | $5.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $5.30 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMM | $5.30 | ↓ -79% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $6.10 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | OON | $6.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $6.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $6.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | HMO | $7.35 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $7.35 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $7.35 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $8.42 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $9.29 | ↓ -63% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $9.96 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $11.06 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $13.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $17.43 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $18.18 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $18.68 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $20.41 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $23.79 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $23.79 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $42.13 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $42.13 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $44.20 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS | PPO | $46.28 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | COMM | $144.86 | ↑ +482% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $170.72 | $26.56 – $241.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $185.68 | $26.12 – $278.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $172.69 | $26.12 – $215.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $170.72 | $20.24 – $241.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $185.68 | $31.92 – $278.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $185.68 | $95.94 – $278.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $172.69 | $26.12 – $259.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $170.72 | $26.56 – $241.86 |