Brachy source palladium at Covenant Hospital Plainview
2601 Dimmitt Rd, Plainview, TX · Providence · · NPI 1073580726
$279.95
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.
$666.54
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.
$85.61 with Bcbs vs $298.45 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 |
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| Bcbs | Vapc3 Government | $85.61 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $88.26 | ↓ -68% |
| Superior | Wellcare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $92.67 | ↓ -67% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $93.11 | ↓ -67% |
| Bcbs | Hmo | $233.24 | ↓ -17% |
| Bcbs | Ers Hmo | $235.75 | ↓ -16% |
| Bcbs | Par Traditional | $287.58 | ↑ +3% |
| Bcbs | Ppo | $298.45 | ↑ +7% |
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Brachy source palladium at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $279.95 | $327.71 – $327.71 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $279.95 | $69.71 – $327.71 |
| Covenant Hospital Levelland | Levelland | $279.95 | $85.61 – $93.11 |
| Covenant Specialty Hospital | Lubbock | $279.95 | not published |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $321.86 – $321.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $152.99 – $152.99 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $152.99 – $152.99 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $152.99 – $152.99 |