Inj, acetaminophen (b braun) at MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL
5500 Frisco Square Blvd, Frisco, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1699726406
$39.69
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.
$39.69
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.
$0.05 with TriWest Health Alliance vs $39.69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $0.05 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Tricare | $0.05 | ↓ -100% |
| United | SmallGroup | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $0.20 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $0.21 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $0.21 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $0.30 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $0.30 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $0.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $0.30 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $0.32 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | PPO | $0.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | HMO | $0.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $0.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $0.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $0.43 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | IFP | $5.36 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $5.56 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $6.47 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $6.91 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $9.45 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMM | $10.16 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $10.16 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | OON | $11.91 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $13.42 | ↓ -66% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $15.88 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASA | $20.92 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $24.01 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $24.01 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $39.69 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $39.69 | ↑ +0% |
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Inj, acetaminophen (b braun) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $96.52 | $0.23 – $0.23 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $41.17 | $0.05 – $0.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $33.31 | $0.05 – $0.12 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $69.30 | $0.17 – $0.23 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $72.52 | $0.05 – $0.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $75.41 | $0.05 – $0.12 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $63.48 | $0.17 – $0.23 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $64.21 | $0.10 – $0.12 |