Brain image w/flow 4 + views at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$5,450.69
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.
$5,450.69
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.
$304.73 with United vs $5,450.69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | STARKids | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STARPerinate | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| United | CHIP | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STARPLUS | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STAR | $304.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $319.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $329.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $329.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $335.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | CHIP | $335.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $335.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $335.20 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $369.26 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $380.91 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $381.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $381.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $381.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $381.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $381.55 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $406.49 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $406.49 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $471.50 | ↓ -91% |
| United | SmallGroup | $611.66 | ↓ -89% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $611.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $646.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $692.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMM | $692.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $735.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $763.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OON | $812.23 | ↓ -85% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $1,207.07 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $1,207.07 | ↓ -78% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,237.31 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | COMM | $1,248.27 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,266.02 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,324.98 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,335.42 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $1,406.28 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $1,842.33 | ↓ -66% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,180.28 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,420.11 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $2,872.51 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $3,815.48 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $3,962.65 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $4,088.02 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $5,450.69 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $5,450.69 | ↑ +0% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,337.97 | $481.23 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,901.40 | $295.70 – $2,376.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,337.97 | $316.40 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,337.97 | $295.70 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,901.40 | $295.70 – $2,852.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |