Breath recording infant at MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL
7777 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1689628984
$6,511.00
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.
$6,511.00
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.
$455.77 with Superior Health Plan vs $6,511.00 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 | CHIP | $455.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $455.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $455.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $455.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $455.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Optum Health | MCD | $716.21 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | IFP | $878.99 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $911.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $1,061.29 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $1,146.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Religious Order of Jehovah Witness | LOGOV | $1,302.20 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $1,335.43 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,335.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,354.29 | ↓ -79% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,399.87 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $1,549.62 | ↓ -76% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $1,562.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,595.19 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways NTX | NarrowNetwork | $1,660.31 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | COMM | $1,666.82 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $1,666.82 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $1,679.84 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $1,718.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $1,718.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | HMO | $1,920.74 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $1,920.74 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,920.74 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OON | $1,953.30 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | COMM | $2,017.76 | ↓ -69% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $2,200.72 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthcare Highways NTX | CityofPlanoEmployeeBenefitPlan | $2,278.85 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $2,364.92 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $2,364.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $2,428.60 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2,481.47 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,598.01 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,604.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $2,604.40 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,890.88 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $2,929.95 | ↓ -55% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $2,929.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MCR | $3,190.39 | ↓ -51% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $3,255.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $3,431.30 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna Lifesource | COMM | $3,581.05 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $3,581.05 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $3,581.05 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $3,581.05 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $3,581.05 | ↓ -45% |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | EmployeesHealthBenefitPlan | $3,646.16 | ↓ -44% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $3,776.38 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $3,834.98 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $3,834.98 | ↓ -41% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | COMM | $4,362.37 | ↓ -33% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $4,557.70 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $4,557.70 | ↓ -30% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $4,557.70 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $4,622.81 | ↓ -29% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $4,883.25 | ↓ -25% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $5,208.80 | ↓ -20% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $5,208.80 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $5,534.35 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum Health (URN) | COMM | $5,794.79 | ↓ -11% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $6,511.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Unicare | MCD | $6,511.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $6,511.00 | ↑ +0% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,077.10 | $221.70 – $1,615.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,130.96 | $226.19 – $1,413.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,077.10 | $345.75 – $1,615.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,077.10 | $556.50 – $3,235.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,130.96 | $356.12 – $1,696.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $1,077.10 | $178.00 – $1,346.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $1,077.10 | $269.28 – $1,615.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $1,130.96 | $207.34 – $1,696.44 |