Myelography thoracic spine at Texas Health Hospital Frisco
12400 Dallas Parkway, Frisco, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1104381292
$1,255.35
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.
$2,092.25
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.
$107.93 with Parkland vs $5,373.03 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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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| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | $107.93 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $107.93 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $107.93 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $107.93 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $113.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $116.56 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $551.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $722.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $787.49 | ↓ -37% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $787.49 | ↓ -37% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $803.24 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $818.99 | ↓ -35% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $826.87 | ↓ -34% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $826.87 | ↓ -34% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $826.87 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $859.08 | ↓ -32% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $866.24 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $874.12 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $889.87 | ↓ -29% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $919.13 | ↓ -27% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $983.36 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $1,051.87 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,145.51 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1,156.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $1,255.35 | ↑ +0% |
| PHCS | PPO | $1,454.11 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,458.30 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $1,466.67 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,466.67 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $1,569.19 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,788.51 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,820.26 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $1,841.18 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $1,841.18 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $1,968.81 | ↑ +57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,987.31 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $5,373.03 | ↑ +328% |
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Myelography thoracic spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,014.13 | $107.93 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - FRISCO AT PGA PARKWAY | Frisco | $1,014.13 | $107.93 – $1,693.10 |
| MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL | Frisco | not published | $107.93 – $810.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,014.13 | $107.93 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,370.02 | $282.00 – $2,055.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,370.02 | $107.93 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,370.02 | $115.49 – $2,055.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,370.02 | $107.93 – $2,055.03 |