Electron microscopy diagnostic at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano
6200 W Parker Rd, Plano, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1770514077
$1,478.85
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.
$2,464.75
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.
$148.75 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $3,681.88 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 |
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| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $148.75 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $148.75 | ↓ -90% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | $148.75 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $148.75 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $156.16 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $160.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $249.66 | ↓ -83% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $571.17 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $628.20 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $628.20 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $698.56 | ↓ -53% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $729.15 | ↓ -51% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $809.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $809.35 | ↓ -45% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $825.54 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $841.72 | ↓ -43% |
| PHCS | PPO | $844.60 | ↓ -43% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $849.82 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $849.82 | ↓ -43% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $849.82 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | ASA | $851.89 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $851.89 | ↓ -42% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $890.29 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $898.38 | ↓ -39% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $911.44 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $914.57 | ↓ -38% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,057.27 | ↓ -29% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $1,069.42 | ↓ -28% |
| USA | MCO | $1,069.42 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $1,143.55 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,243.84 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $1,298.40 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,346.44 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1,346.44 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,382.04 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,731.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $3,681.88 | ↑ +149% |
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Electron microscopy diagnostic at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PLANO | Plano | $1,817.00 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |
| Texas Health Center for Diagnostics and Surgery Plano | Plano | $1,478.85 | $249.66 – $1,346.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,817.00 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,817.00 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,817.00 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,817.00 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,817.00 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,817.00 | $26.00 – $2,130.15 |