Screen pap by tech w md supv at Ascension Seton Cedar Park Hospital
1401 Medical parkway, Cedar Park, TX · Ascension · · NPI 1376662296
$110.48
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.
$306.88
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.
$15.86 with CHAMPVA vs $82.57 with COVENANT HEALTH — 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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| CHAMPVA | 1135_CHAMPVA REST_TX 20180301 | $15.86 | ↓ -86% |
| CHAMPVA | 1136_CHAMPVA AUSTIN 20180301 | $15.91 | ↓ -86% |
| TRICARE | 1229_TRICARE CAH OUTPATIENT 20170101 | $16.14 | ↓ -85% |
| HUMANA HMO | 2668_HUMANA HMO 20230701 | $25.00 | ↓ -77% |
| SETON PERFORMANCE PLUS | 788_SETON PERFORMANCE EPO PPO (WIL,DEL,BRK,BAS) 20180101 | $25.61 | ↓ -77% |
| SETON PERFORMANCE PLUS | 785_SETON PERFORMANCE EPO PPO (AUS,NW,SW,HAY) 20180101 | $25.61 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS BAV EXCHANGE | 4127_BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD BAV EXCHANGE 20250101 | $28.73 | ↓ -74% |
| AETNA MULTI-TIER WHOLE HEALTH SHA | 4490_AETNA MULTI-TIER WHOLE HEALTH SHA 20250801 | $30.53 | ↓ -72% |
| AETNA ACO HMO | 4489_AETNA ACO HMO 20250801 | $30.53 | ↓ -72% |
| CIGNA HMO | 4475_CIGNA HMO (AUS,NW,SW,HAY) 20250701 | $31.36 | ↓ -72% |
| CIGNA HMO | 4476_CIGNA HMO (WIL,DEL) 20250701 | $31.36 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS HPN | 4497_BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD HPN (DELL, WILLIAMSON,HAYS) 20250501 | $58.36 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS HPN | 4440_BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD HPN 20250501 | $58.36 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS HMO ESSENTIALS | 4095_BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD HMO ESSENTIALS 20250101 | $64.41 | ↓ -42% |
| AETNA SHA AISD | 4335_AETNA SHA AISD 20250101 | $66.05 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS PPO | 4094_BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD PPO 20250101 | $71.22 | ↓ -36% |
| AETNA HMO | 4486_AETNA HMO 20250801 | $82.57 | ↓ -25% |
| COVENANT HEALTH | 4491_COVENANT MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS-AETNA 20250801 | $82.57 | ↓ -25% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $9.45 | $15.75 – $65.81 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston | Livingston | $9.45 | $13.86 – $65.81 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine | San Augustine | $9.45 | $11.34 – $65.81 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $130.42 | $15.12 – $42.25 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $16.37 – $58.21 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $15.15 – $71.10 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $15.15 – $71.10 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $33.10 – $65.92 |