Meg spontaneous at MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL
5500 Frisco Square Blvd, Frisco, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1699726406
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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.
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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.
$945.16 with United vs $3,568.19 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 |
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| United | STARPLUS | $945.16 | — |
| United | STARPerinate | $945.16 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $945.16 | — |
| United | CHIP | $945.16 | — |
| United | STAR | $945.16 | — |
| United | STARKids | $945.16 | — |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $945.16 | — |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $992.42 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $1,020.77 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $1,020.77 | — |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $1,026.58 | — |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $1,039.68 | — |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $1,039.68 | — |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $1,039.68 | — |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $1,039.68 | — |
| Molina | CHIP | $1,039.68 | — |
| Humana | MGMCD | $1,181.45 | — |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $1,196.22 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,196.22 | — |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $2,118.40 | — |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $2,118.40 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2,222.80 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,327.20 | — |
| Humana | COMM | $3,568.19 | — |
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Meg spontaneous at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Hospital Frisco | Frisco | not published | $893.35 – $964.82 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $16,021.22 | $862.65 – $1,725.31 |
| Ascension Seton Smithville (Ascension Seton) | Smithville | $1,399.68 | $743.83 – $1,805.21 |
| Dell Children's Medical Center (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $2,721.60 | $743.83 – $2,357.85 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $1,674.71 – $1,674.71 |
| CHRISTUS Children's Hospital | San Antonio | not published | $881.94 – $2,480.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $926.26 – $1,181.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $945.16 – $1,181.45 |