Brain image < 4 views at MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL
7777 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1689628984
$2,005.65
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.
$2,005.65
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.
$140.40 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,005.65 with Independent Medical Systems — 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 | STARHealth | $140.40 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $140.40 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $140.40 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $140.40 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $140.40 | ↓ -93% |
| TEXAS HEALTH NETWORK | MCD | $167.85 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STARKids | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STAR | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| United | CHIP | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STARPerinate | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STARPLUS | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $170.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $178.93 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $184.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $184.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | CHIP | $187.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $187.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $187.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $187.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $213.01 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $219.73 | ↓ -89% |
| Optum Health | MCD | $220.62 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $221.42 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $221.42 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $258.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $270.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $280.79 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $353.98 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMM | $379.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $379.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Religious Order of Jehovah Witness | LOGOV | $401.13 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $431.21 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | OON | $444.75 | ↓ -78% |
| United | SmallGroup | $471.74 | ↓ -76% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $471.74 | ↓ -76% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $481.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $491.38 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways NTX | NarrowNetwork | $511.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $517.46 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | COMM | $621.55 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $657.49 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $657.49 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $677.91 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $689.60 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthcare Highways NTX | CityofPlanoEmployeeBenefitPlan | $701.98 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | PPO | $721.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $802.26 | ↓ -60% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $802.26 | ↓ -60% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $890.51 | ↓ -56% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $902.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $902.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MCR | $982.77 | ↓ -51% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $1,002.83 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,056.98 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna Lifesource | COMM | $1,103.11 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $1,103.11 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $1,103.11 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $1,103.11 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $1,103.11 | ↓ -45% |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | EmployeesHealthBenefitPlan | $1,123.16 | ↓ -44% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $1,163.28 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $1,181.33 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $1,181.33 | ↓ -41% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | COMM | $1,343.79 | ↓ -33% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $1,403.95 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $1,403.95 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $1,403.95 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,424.01 | ↓ -29% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $1,504.24 | ↓ -25% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $1,604.52 | ↓ -20% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $1,604.52 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $1,704.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum Health (URN) | COMM | $1,785.03 | ↓ -11% |
| Unicare | MCD | $2,005.65 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,005.65 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $2,005.65 | ↑ +0% |
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| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas | Dallas | not published | $170.41 – $184.04 |
| MEDICAL CITY GREEN OAKS HOSPITAL | DALLAS | not published | $680.19 – $680.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $438.80 | $75.23 – $752.22 |
| Ascension Providence | Waco | $207.63 | $170.41 – $590.75 |
| MEDICAL CITY ARLINGTON HOSPITAL | RED OAK | $2,809.60 | $167.85 – $258.18 |
| MEDICAL CITY LAS COLINAS HOSPITAL | Irving | $3,723.81 | $170.41 – $258.18 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $650.73 – $650.73 |
| CHRISTUS Children's Hospital | San Antonio | not published | $177.76 – $514.23 |