Appendectomy at BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
3500 Gaston Ave., Dallas, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1447250253
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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.
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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.
$5,254.78 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $18,741.87 with Mark Cuban — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $5,254.78 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6,178.15 | — |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $6,308.22 | — |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $6,497.00 | — |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $6,497.00 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $6,503.32 | — |
| Humana | Medicare | $6,503.32 | — |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $6,503.32 | — |
| WellPoint (fka Amerigroup) | Medicare | $6,698.42 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicare | $6,828.49 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $6,828.49 | — |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $6,828.49 | — |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6,828.49 | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $6,828.49 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $6,828.49 | — |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $7,038.00 | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | $7,219.00 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $7,283.72 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $7,431.32 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $7,803.98 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $8,161.67 | — |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $8,200.69 | — |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $8,280.00 | — |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $9,722.46 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | City of Dallas | $9,980.98 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $10,540.66 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $10,730.48 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $11,100.34 | — |
| Superior Ambetter | Ambetter Exchange | $13,982.14 | — |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $18,741.87 | — |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Appendectomy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $5,787.15 | $71.00 – $18,741.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $5,681.93 | $71.00 – $18,741.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $5,787.15 | $85.00 – $18,741.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $5,787.15 | $2,990.03 – $18,741.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $5,681.93 | $71.00 – $18,741.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $5,787.15 | $71.00 – $18,741.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $5,787.15 | $71.00 – $18,741.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $5,681.93 | $71.00 – $18,741.87 |