X-ray ribs w/posterior anterior chest 3 views left at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
8200 Walnut Hill Lane, Dallas, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1396779948
$294.90
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.
$491.50
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.
$42.44 with Amerigroup vs $884.54 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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 |
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| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $42.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $42.44 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $42.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | $42.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $44.56 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $45.84 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $105.02 | ↓ -64% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $105.02 | ↓ -64% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $107.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $109.22 | ↓ -63% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $110.27 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $110.27 | ↓ -63% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $110.27 | ↓ -63% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $115.52 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $116.57 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $118.67 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $173.16 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $201.81 | ↓ -32% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $215.92 | ↓ -27% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $231.01 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $269.10 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $271.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $294.43 | ↓ -0% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $294.90 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $327.16 | ↑ +11% |
| PHCS | PPO | $341.59 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $342.58 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $344.54 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | ASA | $344.54 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $368.63 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $427.61 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $432.52 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $432.52 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $462.50 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $551.00 | ↑ +87% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $722.00 | ↑ +145% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $884.54 | ↑ +200% |
| United Behavioral Health | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Behavioral Health | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna (EverNorth) | Behavioral Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Carelon | Behavioral Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Behavioral Health | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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X-ray ribs w/posterior anterior chest 3 views left at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $394.69 | $42.44 – $493.37 |
| Methodist Charlton Medical Center | Dallas | $300.50 | $40.32 – $277.35 |
| Methodist Dallas Medical Center | Dallas | $300.50 | $40.32 – $283.56 |
| MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL | Dallas | not published | $41.80 – $145.70 |
| MEDICAL CITY GREEN OAKS HOSPITAL | DALLAS | not published | $98.07 – $98.07 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $788.15 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $394.69 | $81.24 – $592.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $370.58 | $42.44 – $463.23 |