Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL
5500 Frisco Square Blvd, Frisco, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1699726406
$14,414.85
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.
$14,414.85
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.
$1,009.04 with Superior Health Plan vs $14,414.85 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 | STARKids | $1,009.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $1,009.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $1,009.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1,009.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1,009.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,217.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $1,346.00 | ↓ -91% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $1,589.23 | ↓ -89% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,603.00 | ↓ -89% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,807.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $1,946.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $1,995.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,012.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $2,018.08 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $2,267.27 | ↓ -84% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,300.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,508.18 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $2,513.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $2,514.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $2,515.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $2,808.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,808.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,808.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,293.00 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $3,294.88 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $3,294.88 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $3,445.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $3,553.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $3,682.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | COMM | $3,682.00 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $3,898.40 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $3,898.40 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $4,094.14 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | PPO | $4,289.87 | ↓ -70% |
| LifeCare Hospitals | MGMCD | $4,324.45 | ↓ -70% |
| LifeCare Hospitals | MGMCR | $4,324.45 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | OON | $4,332.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $4,872.22 | ↓ -66% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $5,765.94 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $6,400.19 | ↓ -56% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $6,486.68 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | COMM | $7,113.00 | ↓ -51% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $7,207.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $7,596.63 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $7,928.17 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $7,928.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $7,928.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $7,928.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $8,360.61 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $8,720.98 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $8,720.98 | ↓ -40% |
| Texas Healthcare Foundation WC | WORKERSCOMP | $9,369.65 | ↓ -35% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $10,090.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $10,090.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $10,090.40 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $10,811.14 | ↓ -25% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $10,811.14 | ↓ -25% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $11,531.88 | ↓ -20% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $11,531.88 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $12,252.62 | ↓ -15% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $14,414.85 | ↑ +0% |
| Unicare | MCD | $14,414.85 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $14,414.85 | ↑ +0% |
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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,835.30 | $489.41 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - FRISCO AT PGA PARKWAY | Frisco | $1,835.30 | $856.47 – $2,294.12 |
| Texas Health Hospital Frisco | Frisco | $1,448.70 | not published |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,754.69 | $2,038.91 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,835.30 | $520.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,584.85 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,653.31 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,584.85 | $85.00 – $3,967.42 |