X-ray exam of middle ear at MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL
5500 Frisco Square Blvd, Frisco, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1699726406
$740.25
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.
$740.25
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.
$51.82 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,056.35 with BCBS — 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 | CHIP | $51.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $51.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $51.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $51.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $51.82 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPerinate | $62.15 | ↓ -92% |
| United | CHIP | $62.15 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $62.15 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STAR | $62.15 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STARKids | $62.15 | ↓ -92% |
| United | STARPLUS | $62.15 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $62.15 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $65.26 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $67.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $67.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $68.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | CHIP | $68.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $68.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $68.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $68.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $74.70 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $77.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | IFP | $99.93 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $102.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $103.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $109.72 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMM | $109.72 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OON | $128.68 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $128.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | COMM | $130.84 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $179.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $179.77 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $181.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $190.98 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $200.71 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | HMO | $200.71 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $200.71 | ↓ -73% |
| LifeCare Hospitals | MGMCR | $222.07 | ↓ -70% |
| LifeCare Hospitals | MGMCD | $222.07 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $250.20 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $253.85 | ↓ -66% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $296.10 | ↓ -60% |
| Prominence Health Plan | HIX | $296.10 | ↓ -60% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $313.62 | ↓ -58% |
| United | SmallGroup | $313.62 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $328.67 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $333.11 | ↓ -55% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $333.11 | ↓ -55% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $370.13 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $390.11 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $407.14 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $407.14 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $407.14 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $407.14 | ↓ -45% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $429.35 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $447.85 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $447.85 | ↓ -40% |
| Texas Healthcare Foundation WC | WORKERSCOMP | $481.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $518.17 | ↓ -30% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $518.17 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $518.17 | ↓ -30% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $555.19 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $555.19 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $573.08 | ↓ -23% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $592.20 | ↓ -20% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $592.20 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $629.21 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $630.87 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $630.87 | ↓ -15% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $740.25 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $740.25 | ↑ +0% |
| Unicare | MCD | $740.25 | ↑ +0% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,086.50 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $1,873.35 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $1,873.35 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,964.85 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,056.35 | ↑ +178% |
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| Texas Health Hospital Frisco | Frisco | $328.20 | $62.15 – $67.12 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $322.45 | $66.50 – $1,366.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $322.45 | $62.15 – $1,366.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $338.57 | $62.15 – $1,366.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $322.45 | $62.15 – $1,366.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $322.45 | $62.15 – $1,366.64 |