Quant diff pulm perf w/imaging at MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL
7218 Crawford Rd, Argyle, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1306897277
$713.98
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.
$713.98
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.
$49.98 with Superior Health Plan vs $848.52 with United — 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 | CHIP | $49.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $49.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $49.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $49.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $49.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | IFP | $96.39 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $99.96 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $125.66 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $174.93 | ↓ -75% |
| TEXAS HEALTH NETWORK | MCD | $185.29 | ↓ -74% |
| United | STARPerinate | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| United | CHIP | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| United | STAR | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| United | STARKids | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| United | STARPLUS | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $188.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $197.52 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $203.16 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $203.16 | ↓ -72% |
| Molina | CHIP | $206.92 | ↓ -71% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $206.92 | ↓ -71% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $206.92 | ↓ -71% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $206.92 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $211.89 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | COMM | $221.26 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $225.67 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $225.67 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $235.14 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $241.33 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $264.93 | ↓ -63% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $285.59 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $317.01 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $363.25 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | ASA | $376.27 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | COMM | $389.12 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $389.12 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | OON | $456.39 | ↓ -36% |
| United | SmallGroup | $471.74 | ↓ -34% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $471.74 | ↓ -34% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $499.79 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $521.21 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $535.49 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $670.13 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $670.13 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $702.86 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS | PPO | $735.59 | ↑ +3% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↑ +19% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,199.16 | $181.76 – $1,498.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,091.69 | $224.71 – $1,637.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,023.08 | $181.76 – $1,278.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,199.16 | $181.76 – $1,498.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,091.69 | $194.48 – $1,637.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,091.69 | $181.76 – $1,637.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,023.08 | $181.76 – $1,534.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,199.16 | $181.76 – $1,498.95 |