Incision of tongue fold at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton
3000 N I-35, Denton, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1003883158
$1,183.95
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.
$1,973.25
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.
$420.64 with United Healthcare vs $11,275.09 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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| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $420.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $420.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $420.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $420.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $441.67 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $454.29 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $462.70 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $762.07 | ↓ -36% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $927.43 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,016.22 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1,090.81 | ↓ -8% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $1,183.95 | ↑ +0% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $1,204.67 | ↑ +2% |
| PHCS | PPO | $1,371.41 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,375.36 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $1,383.25 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,383.25 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $1,479.94 | ↑ +25% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,558.65 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $1,558.65 | ↑ +32% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $1,589.83 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $1,621.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $1,636.59 | ↑ +38% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,636.59 | ↑ +38% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,636.59 | ↑ +38% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $1,696.12 | ↑ +43% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $1,714.52 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,716.73 | ↑ +45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,730.11 | ↑ +46% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $1,736.46 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $1,736.46 | ↑ +47% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,761.28 | ↑ +49% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $1,856.83 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $2,923.00 | ↑ +147% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $3,170.95 | ↑ +168% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $3,523.13 | ↑ +198% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $3,751.00 | ↑ +217% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $11,275.09 | ↑ +852% |
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Incision of tongue fold at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE THE HEART HOSPITAL - DENTON | Denton | $1,163.78 | $420.64 – $3,777.93 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,163.78 | $420.64 – $3,777.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,865.58 | $71.00 – $3,777.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,616.55 | $71.00 – $3,777.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,163.78 | $420.64 – $3,777.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,865.58 | $85.00 – $3,777.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,865.58 | $420.64 – $3,777.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,616.55 | $71.00 – $3,777.93 |