Urine Culture Test at MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL
7777 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1689628984
$1,195.60
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.
$1,195.60
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.
$4.84 with Cook Childrens Health Plan vs $1,195.60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $4.84 | ↓ -100% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $4.84 | ↓ -100% |
| TEXAS HEALTH NETWORK | MCD | $6.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARPLUS | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARKids | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STAR | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| United | CHIP | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARPerinate | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $7.12 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $7.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $7.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | CHIP | $7.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $7.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $7.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $7.46 | ↓ -99% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $8.03 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana National Transplant | PFFS | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MGMCR | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | SNP | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | POS | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana National Transplant | MCRHMO | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MGMCR | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Triwest Veterans | FEDERAL | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MGMCRHMO | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MME | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MCR | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana National Transplant | MCRPPO | $8.07 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCR | $8.14 | ↓ -99% |
| Care N Care | MGMCR | $8.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCR | $8.23 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCR | $8.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Integranet | MGMCR | $8.31 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MGMCR | $8.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPOS | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRSNP | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Plan of Texas, Inc. | MGMCR | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| ProCare Advantge | MCR | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRHMO | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPPO | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRDualEligible | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPFFS | $8.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MCR | $8.55 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Independent Health Plan | MGMCR | $8.55 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Tricare | $8.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MCR | $8.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MMP | $8.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MME | $8.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Imperial Insurance Company | MCR | $8.88 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $8.96 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $9.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $9.73 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | COMM | $9.73 | ↓ -99% |
| Verda Health Plan | MGMCR | $10.49 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | OON | $11.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPPO | $12.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPFFS | $12.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPOS | $12.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Bravo Health | MCRHMO | $12.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Bravo Health | MCRSNP | $12.11 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $14.12 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $14.12 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $14.45 | ↓ -99% |
| USA Managed Care | WORKERSCOMP | $15.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $15.98 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $16.14 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $16.14 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $16.95 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | PPO | $17.75 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | EPO | $18.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | HMO | $18.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | HIX | $20.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $21.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $31.01 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $31.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $34.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $34.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | HMO | $34.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $43.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $83.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $83.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $83.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $83.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $83.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Optum Health | MCD | $131.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | IFP | $161.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $167.38 | ↓ -86% |
| Religious Order of Jehovah Witness | LOGOV | $239.12 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $249.88 | ↓ -79% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $286.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $292.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $308.46 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $404.11 | ↓ -66% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $478.24 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $494.98 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $538.02 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $538.02 | ↓ -55% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $538.02 | ↓ -55% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MCR | $585.84 | ↓ -51% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $597.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $603.78 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Lifesource | COMM | $657.58 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $657.58 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $657.58 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $657.58 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $657.58 | ↓ -45% |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | EmployeesHealthBenefitPlan | $669.54 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $685.08 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $685.08 | ↓ -43% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $693.45 | ↓ -42% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | COMM | $801.05 | ↓ -33% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $836.92 | ↓ -30% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $836.92 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $848.88 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $896.70 | ↓ -25% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $896.70 | ↓ -25% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $956.48 | ↓ -20% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $956.48 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,016.26 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum Health (URN) | COMM | $1,064.08 | ↓ -11% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,195.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Unicare | MCD | $1,195.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $1,195.60 | ↑ +0% |
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Urine Culture Test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $129.30 | $6.78 – $161.62 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas | Dallas | $210.00 | $6.78 – $33.26 |
| MEDICAL CITY GREEN OAKS HOSPITAL | DALLAS | $392.74 | $6.78 – $21.14 |
| Methodist Charlton Medical Center | Dallas | $201.00 | $6.44 – $27.74 |
| Methodist Dallas Medical Center | Dallas | $201.00 | $6.44 – $36.69 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $203.12 | $7.26 – $31.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $86.92 | $11.82 – $130.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $121.84 | $6.78 – $152.29 |