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ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
3500 Gaston Ave., Dallas, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1447250253
$2,327.80
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.
$3,879.67
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.
$568.33 with Baylor Scott & White Health Plan vs $7,411.00 with Cigna — 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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| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $568.33 | ↓ -76% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $580.29 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare | $598.24 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $598.24 | ↓ -74% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $598.24 | ↓ -74% |
| WellPoint (fka Amerigroup) | Medicare | $616.19 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $628.15 | ↓ -73% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $628.15 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $628.15 | ↓ -73% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $628.15 | ↓ -73% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $628.15 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicare | $628.15 | ↓ -73% |
| WellPoint (fka Amerigroup) | CHIP/Medicaid | $659.54 | ↓ -72% |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicaid | $659.54 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $670.03 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $705.71 | ↓ -70% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $717.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $750.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $754.38 | ↓ -68% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $894.37 | ↓ -62% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $987.10 | ↓ -58% |
| Superior Ambetter | Ambetter Exchange | $1,286.22 | ↓ -45% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | Workers Compensation | $1,396.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $1,504.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $1,770.24 | ↓ -24% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $1,779.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Employers Health Network | BSWQA Direct/EHN Rental | $1,823.44 | ↓ -22% |
| Employers Health Network | EHN Network | $2,133.82 | ↓ -8% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $2,133.82 | ↓ -8% |
| Curative | Commercial | $2,521.79 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $2,715.77 | ↑ +17% |
| Optum | Commercial | $2,715.77 | ↑ +17% |
| First Health | PPO | $2,715.77 | ↑ +17% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $2,909.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $2,909.75 | ↑ +25% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $2,909.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $3,000.00 | ↑ +29% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $4,280.00 | ↑ +84% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $5,475.00 | ↑ +135% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | City of Dallas | $5,720.00 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $6,040.00 | ↑ +159% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $6,299.00 | ↑ +171% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $6,360.00 | ↑ +173% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $6,643.00 | ↑ +185% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $7,411.00 | ↑ +218% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Charter | not published by hospital | — |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,377.55 | $489.38 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,377.55 | $475.51 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,327.80 | $568.33 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,377.55 | $568.33 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,377.55 | $1,228.40 – $5,475.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,327.80 | $568.33 – $5,475.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $2,327.80 | $569.27 – $5,475.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $2,377.55 | $475.51 – $6,643.00 |