Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at Texas Health Hospital Frisco
12400 Dallas Parkway, Frisco, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1104381292
$148.20
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.
$247.00
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.
$33.43 with United Healthcare vs $232.43 with Cigna — 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 Healthcare | All Payer | $33.43 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $33.43 | ↓ -77% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $35.38 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $37.17 | ↓ -75% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $37.52 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $37.52 | ↓ -75% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $38.27 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $39.02 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $39.40 | ↓ -73% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $39.40 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $39.40 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $41.27 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $41.65 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $42.40 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $43.94 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $43.94 | ↓ -70% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | $43.94 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $43.94 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $46.14 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $47.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $66.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $73.55 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $79.98 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | PPO | $84.79 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $84.79 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $106.64 | ↓ -28% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $116.09 | ↓ -22% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $148.20 | ↑ +0% |
| PHCS | PPO | $171.67 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | ASA | $173.15 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $173.15 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $185.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $195.93 | ↑ +32% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $214.89 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $217.36 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $217.36 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $232.43 | ↑ +57% |
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Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $179.62 | $10.00 – $224.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - FRISCO AT PGA PARKWAY | Frisco | $179.62 | $10.00 – $224.53 |
| MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL | Frisco | $1,183.19 | $33.84 – $373.25 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $179.62 | $10.00 – $224.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $181.17 | $12.00 – $271.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $181.17 | $12.00 – $226.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $181.17 | $12.00 – $271.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $181.17 | $8.00 – $271.75 |