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$1,044.98
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.
$1,044.98
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.
$12.74 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,101.80 with Humana — 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 | STARKids | $12.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $12.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $12.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $12.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $12.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $27.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $27.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $27.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $27.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $29.72 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $29.72 | ↓ -97% |
| United | SmallGroup | $33.84 | ↓ -97% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $33.84 | ↓ -97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $33.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $35.24 | ↓ -97% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $37.36 | ↓ -96% |
| Oscar | HIX | $41.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $50.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $50.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $50.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $54.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $57.96 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $67.53 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $74.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $74.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $74.31 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $74.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $84.92 | ↓ -92% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $91.29 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | HMO | $93.27 | ↓ -91% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $95.53 | ↓ -91% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $95.53 | ↓ -91% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $95.53 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $99.96 | ↓ -90% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $106.15 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | PPO | $106.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $113.16 | ↓ -89% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $116.77 | ↓ -89% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $116.77 | ↓ -89% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $127.38 | ↓ -88% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $127.38 | ↓ -88% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $127.38 | ↓ -88% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $127.38 | ↓ -88% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $138.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $169.84 | ↓ -84% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $174.09 | ↓ -83% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $180.46 | ↓ -83% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $180.46 | ↓ -83% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $191.07 | ↓ -82% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $191.07 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | CSN | $233.69 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $253.12 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $261.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | PPO | $301.15 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $316.14 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $420.43 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $420.43 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $420.43 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $446.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $446.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $446.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $524.72 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $524.72 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $524.72 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $567.35 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $567.35 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $567.35 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $835.98 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,101.80 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,101.80 | ↑ +5% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $171.65 | $10.00 – $214.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $151.88 | $12.00 – $227.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $147.46 | $12.00 – $184.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $171.65 | $10.00 – $214.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $151.88 | $12.00 – $227.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $151.88 | $8.00 – $227.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $147.46 | $12.00 – $221.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $171.65 | $10.00 – $214.57 |