1 pc ost pouch w filter at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano
6200 W Parker Rd, Plano, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1770514077
$16.37
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.
$27.27
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.
$0.28 with Amerigroup vs $7.53 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $0.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $0.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | $0.28 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $0.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $0.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $0.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $0.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $0.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $0.99 | ↓ -94% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $1.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1.13 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1.24 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1.25 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $1.25 | ↓ -92% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $1.35 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1.42 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $1.50 | ↓ -91% |
| PHCS | PPO | $1.56 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1.58 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $1.58 | ↓ -90% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $1.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1.96 | ↓ -88% |
| USA | MCO | $1.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $1.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $2.12 | ↓ -87% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $6.66 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $6.66 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $6.79 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $6.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $6.99 | ↓ -57% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $6.99 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $6.99 | ↓ -57% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $7.33 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $7.39 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $7.53 | ↓ -54% |
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1 pc ost pouch w filter at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Center for Diagnostics and Surgery Plano | Plano | $16.37 | not published |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $48.00 | $6.53 – $14.32 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $80.00 | $6.53 – $14.32 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen | Allen | $16.37 | not published |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound | Flower Mound | $16.37 | not published |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $16.37 | not published |
| Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital | Arlington | $16.37 | not published |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton | Denton | $16.37 | not published |