Frozen blood thaw at MEDICAL CITY MCKINNEY HOSPITAL
4500 Medical Center Drive, McKinney, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1437102639
$1,070.87
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.
$1,070.87
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.
$74.96 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,070.87 with Independent Medical Systems — 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 | STARPLUS | $74.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $74.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $74.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $74.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $74.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $115.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | IFP | $144.57 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $149.92 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $159.26 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $169.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMM | $169.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | OON | $199.62 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $200.25 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $222.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $262.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $276.28 | ↓ -74% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $278.43 | ↓ -74% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | ↓ -73% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | ↓ -73% |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $326.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $327.02 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | COMM | $331.86 | ↓ -69% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $361.95 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $364.90 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | HMO | $364.90 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $364.90 | ↓ -66% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $374.80 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $439.29 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $461.82 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $475.47 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $481.89 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $495.97 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $495.97 | ↓ -54% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $535.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $564.35 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $588.98 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $588.98 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $588.98 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $588.98 | ↓ -45% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $621.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Magellan BH | Pinnacle | $642.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Magellan BH | Summit | $642.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Value Options Behavioral Health | COMM | $642.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | BHCOMM | $696.07 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $700.02 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $700.02 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $734.03 | ↓ -31% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $749.61 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $749.61 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $749.61 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS | PPO | $768.04 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $778.52 | ↓ -27% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $803.15 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $856.70 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMM | $856.70 | ↓ -20% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $856.70 | ↓ -20% |
| ComPsych Corporation | COMM | $856.70 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $910.24 | ↓ -15% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,070.87 | ↑ +0% |
| Unicare | MCD | $1,070.87 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $1,070.87 | ↑ +0% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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