Strapping of hip at MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL
7218 Crawford Rd, Argyle, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1306897277
$546.80
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.
$546.80
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.
$38.28 with Superior Health Plan vs $4,332.00 with Aetna — 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 Health Plan | STARKids | $38.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $38.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $38.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $38.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $38.28 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $71.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $73.82 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $76.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | COMM | $94.21 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $96.24 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $113.73 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $127.07 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $127.07 | ↓ -77% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $134.32 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $156.78 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $156.78 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $164.48 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | PPO | $172.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $184.82 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $242.78 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $288.16 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $382.76 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $399.16 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $410.10 | ↓ -25% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,454.00 | ↑ +166% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $1,572.00 | ↑ +187% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $1,574.00 | ↑ +188% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,628.00 | ↑ +198% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | ↑ +206% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $1,757.00 | ↑ +221% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,757.00 | ↑ +221% |
| Cigna | HMO | $1,757.00 | ↑ +221% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $1,995.00 | ↑ +265% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,069.00 | ↑ +278% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,174.00 | ↑ +298% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $2,222.00 | ↑ +306% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $2,287.00 | ↑ +318% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $2,513.00 | ↑ +360% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $3,445.00 | ↑ +530% |
| Aetna | COMM | $3,682.00 | ↑ +573% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $3,682.00 | ↑ +573% |
| Aetna | OON | $4,332.00 | ↑ +692% |
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