Culture body fluid at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK
900 East Whitestone Boulevard, Cedar Park, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1265568638
$165.55
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.
$275.91
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.
$7.24 with Superior Health Plan vs $54.39 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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 | Medicaid | $7.24 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $7.75 | ↓ -95% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.19 | ↓ -95% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $8.36 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare | $8.62 | ↓ -95% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $8.62 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicare HMO/Medicare PPO | $8.62 | ↓ -95% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $9.05 | ↓ -95% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $9.05 | ↓ -95% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $9.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $9.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $9.05 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.65 | ↓ -94% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $10.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $10.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $10.87 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $12.00 | ↓ -93% |
| CareWorks fka Rockport | Worker's Compensation | $12.89 | ↓ -92% |
| Injury Management Organization | Med Select Network | $12.89 | ↓ -92% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $12.89 | ↓ -92% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $14.22 | ↓ -91% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $16.37 | ↓ -90% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $19.26 | ↓ -88% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $20.69 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $27.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $31.67 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $32.14 | ↓ -81% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $32.14 | ↓ -81% |
| MidCoast | Commercial | $32.14 | ↓ -81% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $33.90 | ↓ -80% |
| Independent Medical System | Commercial PPO | $35.06 | ↓ -79% |
| Curative | Commercial | $37.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Commercial HMO | $37.99 | ↓ -77% |
| First Health | PPO | $40.91 | ↓ -75% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $40.91 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $40.91 | ↓ -75% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $43.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $43.83 | ↓ -74% |
| BlueBell Creameries | Self Insured | $43.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $44.57 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $45.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $51.63 | ↓ -69% |
| Three Rivers | Three Rivers Provider Network | $52.60 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $54.39 | ↓ -67% |
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| Ascension Seton Cedar Park Hospital | Cedar Park | $163.83 | $5.61 – $107.41 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $456.65 | $7.76 – $33.19 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $171.29 | $7.24 – $43.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $145.35 | $7.22 – $52.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $165.55 | $7.24 – $43.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $171.29 | $7.24 – $43.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $145.35 | $7.75 – $52.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $145.35 | $7.24 – $52.60 |