Tissue culture skin/biopsy at MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL
7777 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1689628984
$4,251.60
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.
$4,251.60
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.
$84.44 with Cook Childrens Health Plan vs $4,251.60 with Unicare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $84.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $84.44 | ↓ -98% |
| TEXAS HEALTH NETWORK | MCD | $116.44 | ↓ -97% |
| United | STARKids | $118.21 | ↓ -97% |
| United | STARPLUS | $118.21 | ↓ -97% |
| United | STARPerinate | $118.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $118.21 | ↓ -97% |
| United | STAR | $118.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $118.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $118.21 | ↓ -97% |
| United | CHIP | $118.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $124.12 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $127.67 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $127.67 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $130.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | CHIP | $130.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $130.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $130.03 | ↓ -97% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $140.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MGMCR | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MGMCR | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MGMCRHMO | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Triwest Veterans | FEDERAL | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | MME | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | MCR | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| United | SmallGroup | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | POS | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | SNP | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $140.73 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCR | $141.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MCR | $141.93 | ↓ -97% |
| Care N Care | MGMCR | $142.14 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCR | $143.54 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | MGMCR | $144.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Integranet | MGMCR | $144.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $147.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPFFS | $147.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRDualEligible | $147.77 | ↓ -97% |
| ProCare Advantge | MCR | $147.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPPO | $147.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRSNP | $147.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRHMO | $147.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPOS | $147.77 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Plan of Texas, Inc. | MGMCR | $147.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MCR | $149.17 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Independent Health Plan | MGMCR | $149.17 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Tricare | $151.65 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | MME | $153.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | MCR | $153.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | MMP | $153.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Imperial Insurance Company | MCR | $154.80 | ↓ -96% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $156.34 | ↓ -96% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $168.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $179.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Verda Health Plan | MGMCR | $182.95 | ↓ -96% |
| Bravo Health | MCRHMO | $211.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPFFS | $211.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPOS | $211.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPPO | $211.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Bravo Health | MCRSNP | $211.09 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $213.91 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $246.28 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $246.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $246.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $251.91 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $256.13 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $256.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMM | $262.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $262.61 | ↓ -94% |
| USA Managed Care | WORKERSCOMP | $267.39 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $268.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $278.65 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | PPO | $281.46 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $297.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $297.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $297.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $297.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $297.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OON | $309.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior | HMO | $315.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior | EPO | $315.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Oscar | HIX | $365.90 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $368.71 | ↓ -91% |
| Optum Health | MCD | $467.68 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $535.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $536.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $573.97 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $595.22 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | HMO | $598.53 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $598.53 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $598.53 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $757.51 | ↓ -82% |
| Religious Order of Jehovah Witness | LOGOV | $850.32 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $914.09 | ↓ -79% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $1,020.38 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,041.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways NTX | NarrowNetwork | $1,084.16 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $1,096.91 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $1,437.04 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthcare Highways NTX | CityofPlanoEmployeeBenefitPlan | $1,488.06 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | COMM | $1,563.36 | ↓ -63% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $1,700.64 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,887.71 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $1,913.22 | ↓ -55% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $1,913.22 | ↓ -55% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MCR | $2,083.28 | ↓ -51% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $2,125.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $2,240.59 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $2,338.38 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna Lifesource | COMM | $2,338.38 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $2,338.38 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $2,338.38 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $2,338.38 | ↓ -45% |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | EmployeesHealthBenefitPlan | $2,380.90 | ↓ -44% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $2,465.93 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $2,504.19 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $2,504.19 | ↓ -41% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | COMM | $2,848.57 | ↓ -33% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $2,976.12 | ↓ -30% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $2,976.12 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $2,976.12 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,018.64 | ↓ -29% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $3,188.70 | ↓ -25% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $3,401.28 | ↓ -20% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $3,401.28 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $3,613.86 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum Health (URN) | COMM | $3,783.92 | ↓ -11% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $4,251.60 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,251.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Unicare | MCD | $4,251.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Tissue culture skin/biopsy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $687.36 | $35.00 – $859.20 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas | Dallas | $757.20 | $118.21 – $581.80 |
| Methodist Charlton Medical Center | Dallas | $169.00 | $112.30 – $483.72 |
| Methodist Dallas Medical Center | Dallas | $169.00 | $112.30 – $640.06 |
| MEDICAL CITY GREEN OAKS HOSPITAL | DALLAS | not published | $140.73 – $368.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $645.58 | $36.00 – $968.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $626.77 | $36.00 – $783.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $687.36 | $35.00 – $859.20 |