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Thyroid (TSH) Test at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - MCKINNEY
5252 W. University Drive, McKinney, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1124305065
$171.47
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.
$285.79
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.
$10.00 with United Healthcare vs $86.69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Charter | $10.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $10.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | $11.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicaid | $14.11 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $15.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $15.96 | ↓ -91% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $16.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare | $16.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $16.80 | ↓ -90% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $16.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $17.64 | ↓ -90% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $17.64 | ↓ -90% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $17.64 | ↓ -90% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $17.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicare | $17.64 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $18.82 | ↓ -89% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $20.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $21.08 | ↓ -88% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $21.18 | ↓ -88% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $25.12 | ↓ -85% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $26.01 | ↓ -85% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $27.72 | ↓ -84% |
| Employers Health Network | BSWQA Direct/EHN Rental | $28.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $29.58 | ↓ -83% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $30.60 | ↓ -82% |
| Employers Health Network | EHN Network | $33.00 | ↓ -81% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $33.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $33.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | $34.80 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $34.80 | ↓ -80% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $34.80 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Ambetter | Ambetter Exchange | $36.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Curative | Commercial | $39.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $40.32 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $40.99 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $42.00 | ↓ -76% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $42.00 | ↓ -76% |
| First Health | PPO | $42.00 | ↓ -76% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $45.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $45.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $58.13 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | City of Dallas | $77.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $82.32 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $86.69 | ↓ -49% |
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Thyroid (TSH) Test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE THE HEART HOSPITAL - MCKINNEY | McKinney | $171.47 | $10.00 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $171.47 | $10.00 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $144.32 | $7.41 – $54.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $177.40 | $12.00 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $171.47 | $10.00 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $144.32 | $12.00 – $54.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $144.32 | $8.00 – $54.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $171.47 | $10.00 – $45.00 |