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7777 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1689628984
$2,139.80
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.
$2,139.80
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.
$149.79 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,139.80 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 | $149.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $149.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $149.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $149.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $149.79 | ↓ -93% |
| TEXAS HEALTH NETWORK | MCD | $186.27 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STARKids | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STAR | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| United | CHIP | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STARPerinate | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STARPLUS | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $189.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $198.57 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $204.24 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $204.24 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | CHIP | $208.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $208.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $208.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $208.02 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $233.31 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $235.11 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $235.11 | ↓ -89% |
| Optum Health | MCD | $235.38 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $236.39 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $277.35 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $288.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $299.57 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $380.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $407.36 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMM | $407.36 | ↓ -81% |
| Religious Order of Jehovah Witness | LOGOV | $427.96 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $460.06 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OON | $477.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $513.55 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $524.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways NTX | NarrowNetwork | $545.65 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $552.07 | ↓ -74% |
| United | SmallGroup | $611.66 | ↓ -71% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $611.66 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | COMM | $663.12 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $698.14 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $698.14 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $723.25 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $732.24 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthcare Highways NTX | CityofPlanoEmployeeBenefitPlan | $748.93 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | PPO | $766.34 | ↓ -64% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $855.92 | ↓ -60% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $855.92 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $950.07 | ↓ -56% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $962.91 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $962.91 | ↓ -55% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MCR | $1,048.50 | ↓ -51% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $1,069.90 | ↓ -50% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,127.67 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna Lifesource | COMM | $1,176.89 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $1,176.89 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $1,176.89 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $1,176.89 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $1,176.89 | ↓ -45% |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | EmployeesHealthBenefitPlan | $1,198.29 | ↓ -44% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $1,241.08 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $1,260.34 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $1,260.34 | ↓ -41% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | COMM | $1,433.67 | ↓ -33% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $1,497.86 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $1,497.86 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $1,497.86 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,519.26 | ↓ -29% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $1,604.85 | ↓ -25% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $1,711.84 | ↓ -20% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $1,711.84 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $1,818.83 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum Health (URN) | COMM | $1,904.42 | ↓ -11% |
| Unicare | MCD | $2,139.80 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,139.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $2,139.80 | ↑ +0% |
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