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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PLANO
4700 Alliance Blvd., Plano, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1649273434
$337.54
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.
$562.56
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.
$40.10 with Superior Health Plan vs $472.98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | Medicaid | $40.10 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $42.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $99.77 | ↓ -70% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $101.87 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare | $105.02 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $105.02 | ↓ -69% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $105.02 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $110.27 | ↓ -67% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $110.27 | ↓ -67% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $110.27 | ↓ -67% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $110.27 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicare | $110.27 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $117.62 | ↓ -65% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $126.02 | ↓ -63% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $131.80 | ↓ -61% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $132.43 | ↓ -61% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $157.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $173.28 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $224.16 | ↓ -34% |
| Superior Ambetter | Ambetter Exchange | $225.79 | ↓ -33% |
| Employers Health Network | BSWQA Direct/EHN Rental | $264.40 | ↓ -22% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $272.35 | ↓ -19% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $277.34 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $277.34 | ↓ -18% |
| Employers Health Network | EHN Network | $309.41 | ↓ -8% |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | $309.41 | ↓ -8% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $309.41 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $309.41 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $317.19 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $326.28 | ↓ -3% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $326.28 | ↓ -3% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $326.28 | ↓ -3% |
| Independent Medical System | Commercial PPO | $337.54 | ↑ +0% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $349.86 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $349.86 | ↑ +4% |
| Curative | Commercial | $365.66 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | $388.73 | ↑ +15% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $393.79 | ↑ +17% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $393.79 | ↑ +17% |
| Optum | Commercial | $393.79 | ↑ +17% |
| First Health | PPO | $393.79 | ↑ +17% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $421.92 | ↑ +25% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $421.92 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | City of Dallas | $425.90 | ↑ +26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $449.44 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $472.98 | ↑ +40% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $384.07 | $79.05 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $474.69 | $40.10 – $593.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $384.07 | $42.91 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $384.07 | $40.10 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |