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Repair of facial nerve at BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

3500 Gaston Ave., Dallas, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1447250253

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jun 29, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

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Cash price

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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

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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.

$1,996.58 with Superior Health Plan vs $19,667.17 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Superior Health Plan Medicaid $1,996.58
WellPoint (fka Amerigroup) CHIP/Medicaid $1,996.58
United Healthcare Medicaid/CHIP $2,136.34
HealthSmart Accel Network $2,763.00
Cigna Local Plus $6,093.00
Cigna HMO/PPO $7,168.00
United Healthcare Charter $7,711.00
United Healthcare Nexus $7,711.00
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan Medicare Advantage $8,375.05
CORVEL Worker's Compensation $8,551.36
United Healthcare Commercial Broad $8,568.00
TriWest Community Care Network $8,815.84
Humana Medicare $8,815.84
Aetna Medicare Advantage $8,815.84
WellPoint (fka Amerigroup) Medicare $9,080.32
Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $9,256.63
HealthSpring Medicare Advantage $9,256.63
Molina Medicare Advantage $9,256.63
ProCare Advantage Medicare Advantage $9,256.63
Superior Health Plan Medicare $9,256.63
American Health Plan Medicare Advantage $9,256.63
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Advantage $9,310.23
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $9,873.74
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Small Group $10,579.01
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Individual $11,063.88
Prime Health Services Worker's Compensation $11,116.77
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth $13,166.53
Sedgwick Preferred Network $13,179.68
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Plus - Small Group $14,546.14
Mark Cuban Commercial $16,502.12
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Dallas $17,683.92
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Essentials (HMO) $18,675.54
Superior Ambetter Ambetter Exchange $18,954.06
Blue Cross Blue Shield BlueChoice (PPO) $19,667.17
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