X-ray l/s-spine bend vw only 2-3 vw at MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL
7218 Crawford Rd, Argyle, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1306897277
$730.65
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.
$730.65
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.
$40.15 with TEXAS HEALTH NETWORK vs $547.99 with HealthSmart Preferred Care — 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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| TEXAS HEALTH NETWORK | MCD | $40.15 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STARPerinate | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STARPLUS | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STARKids | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STAR | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| United | CHIP | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $40.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $42.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $44.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $44.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $44.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $44.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | CHIP | $44.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $44.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $50.46 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $50.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $51.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $51.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $51.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $51.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $51.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $69.18 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMM | $74.11 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $74.11 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | OON | $86.92 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | IFP | $98.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $102.29 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $115.96 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $116.07 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | COMM | $117.98 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $128.59 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $129.52 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | HMO | $129.52 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $129.52 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $137.86 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $146.82 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $146.82 | ↓ -80% |
| United | SmallGroup | $154.52 | ↓ -79% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $154.52 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $163.92 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $179.01 | ↓ -75% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $246.96 | ↓ -66% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $292.26 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $324.41 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $385.05 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $435.99 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $435.99 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $457.29 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS | PPO | $478.58 | ↓ -34% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $511.45 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $533.37 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $547.99 | ↓ -25% |
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