Attach bladder/urethra simple 51840 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.
$1,175.48 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $10,804.29 with Superior Ambetter — 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $1,175.48 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $1,662.36 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | City of Dallas | $2,232.72 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $2,357.91 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $2,483.11 | — |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $4,302.00 | — |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $4,302.00 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $4,773.99 | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | $4,780.00 | — |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $4,874.49 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $5,025.25 | — |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $5,025.25 | — |
| Humana | Medicare | $5,025.25 | — |
| WellPoint (fka Amerigroup) | Medicare | $5,176.01 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $5,276.51 | — |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $5,276.51 | — |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $5,276.51 | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $5,276.51 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $5,276.51 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicare | $5,276.51 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $5,628.28 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $6,030.30 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $6,306.69 | — |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $6,336.84 | — |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $7,038.00 | — |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $7,512.75 | — |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $8,280.00 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $8,291.66 | — |
| Superior Ambetter | Ambetter Exchange | $10,804.29 | — |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $869.44 – $4,826.69 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $6,378.19 – $6,378.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $6,378.19 – $6,378.19 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $795.17 – $8,068.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $6,378.19 – $6,378.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $6,378.19 – $6,378.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $6,378.19 – $6,378.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $6,378.19 – $6,378.19 |