Csf ventriculography at MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL
5500 Frisco Square Blvd, Frisco, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1699726406
$4,265.70
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.
$4,265.70
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.
$298.60 with Superior Health Plan vs $4,265.70 with National Healthcare Solutions — 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 | STARPLUS | $298.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $298.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $298.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $298.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $298.60 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STAR | $314.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $314.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $314.75 | ↓ -93% |
| United | CHIP | $314.75 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPerinate | $314.75 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPLUS | $314.75 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARKids | $314.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $330.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $339.93 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $339.93 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $346.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $346.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $346.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $346.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | CHIP | $346.23 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $381.26 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $393.44 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $419.71 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $419.71 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $487.83 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | IFP | $575.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $597.20 | ↓ -86% |
| United | SmallGroup | $611.66 | ↓ -86% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $611.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $668.87 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $716.51 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | COMM | $716.51 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $742.23 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OON | $840.37 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,045.10 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $1,100.55 | ↓ -74% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $1,246.32 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $1,246.32 | ↓ -71% |
| LifeCare Hospitals | MGMCD | $1,279.71 | ↓ -70% |
| LifeCare Hospitals | MGMCR | $1,279.71 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | COMM | $1,289.57 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,307.19 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,368.07 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $1,441.81 | ↓ -66% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,706.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $1,706.28 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,893.97 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $1,919.57 | ↓ -55% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $1,919.57 | ↓ -55% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $2,132.85 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $2,248.02 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $2,346.14 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $2,346.14 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $2,346.14 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $2,346.14 | ↓ -45% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $2,474.11 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $2,580.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $2,580.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Texas Healthcare Foundation WC | WORKERSCOMP | $2,772.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $2,985.99 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $2,985.99 | ↓ -30% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $2,985.99 | ↓ -30% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $3,199.28 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,199.28 | ↓ -25% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $3,412.56 | ↓ -20% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $3,412.56 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $3,625.84 | ↓ -15% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $4,265.70 | ↑ +0% |
| Unicare | MCD | $4,265.70 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,265.70 | ↑ +0% |
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Csf ventriculography at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Hospital Frisco | Frisco | not published | $314.75 – $339.93 |
| Ascension Providence | Waco | $705.15 | $207.19 – $791.32 |
| MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL | Dallas | $3,916.77 | $310.03 – $487.83 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $1,233.50 – $1,233.50 |
| CHRISTUS Children's Hospital | San Antonio | not published | $326.45 – $907.71 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $308.45 – $1,727.59 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $332.13 – $1,727.59 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $1,396.90 – $1,396.90 |