Video Swallow Study (Modified Barium Swallow) at MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL
5500 Frisco Square Blvd, Frisco, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1699726406
$1,495.37
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.
$1,495.37
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.
$104.68 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,495.37 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 | STARHealth | $104.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $104.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $104.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $104.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $104.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $124.96 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STAR | $124.96 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $124.96 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STARPLUS | $124.96 | ↓ -92% |
| United | CHIP | $124.96 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STARPerinate | $124.96 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STARKids | $124.96 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $131.21 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $134.96 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $134.96 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $137.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $137.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $137.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | CHIP | $137.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $137.46 | ↓ -91% |
| United | SmallGroup | $154.52 | ↓ -90% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $154.52 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $156.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | IFP | $201.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $209.35 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $242.95 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $249.64 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $249.64 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $252.72 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $259.52 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | COMM | $259.52 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OON | $307.14 | ↓ -79% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $366.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $385.81 | ↓ -74% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $410.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $410.93 | ↓ -73% |
| LifeCare Hospitals | MGMCD | $448.61 | ↓ -70% |
| LifeCare Hospitals | MGMCR | $448.61 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | HMO | $458.78 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $458.78 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $458.78 | ↓ -69% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $505.44 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $580.26 | ↓ -61% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $598.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $598.15 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $619.08 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $672.92 | ↓ -55% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $672.92 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $672.92 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $743.46 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $743.46 | ↓ -50% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $747.68 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $755.16 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $779.90 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS | PPO | $816.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $822.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $822.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $822.45 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $822.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $867.31 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $879.28 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $879.28 | ↓ -41% |
| Texas Healthcare Foundation WC | WORKERSCOMP | $971.99 | ↓ -35% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $1,046.76 | ↓ -30% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $1,046.76 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,121.53 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,121.53 | ↓ -25% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $1,121.53 | ↓ -25% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $1,196.30 | ↓ -20% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $1,196.30 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,271.06 | ↓ -15% |
| Unicare | MCD | $1,495.37 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $1,495.37 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,495.37 | ↑ +0% |
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Video Swallow Study (Modified Barium Swallow) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $505.08 | $124.96 – $631.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - FRISCO AT PGA PARKWAY | Frisco | $505.08 | $124.96 – $631.35 |
| Texas Health Hospital Frisco | Frisco | $601.05 | $124.96 – $134.96 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $505.08 | $124.96 – $631.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $472.24 | $97.20 – $708.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $633.71 | $124.96 – $792.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $472.24 | $133.71 – $708.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $472.24 | $124.96 – $708.35 |