Bx bone trocar/ndl deep at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$5,388.23
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.
$5,388.23
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.
$377.18 with Superior Health Plan vs $5,388.23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $377.18 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $377.18 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $377.18 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $377.18 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $377.18 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPerinate | $486.45 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STARPLUS | $486.45 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STARKids | $486.45 | ↓ -91% |
| United | CHIP | $486.45 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STAR | $486.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $486.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $486.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $486.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $510.77 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $510.77 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $510.77 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | CHIP | $535.10 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $535.10 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $535.10 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $535.10 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $583.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $583.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $608.06 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | IFP | $727.41 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $754.35 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,223.13 | ↓ -77% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $1,670.17 | ↓ -69% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $1,821.22 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $1,976.54 | ↓ -63% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,129.00 | ↓ -60% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $2,307.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $2,356.00 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,392.37 | ↓ -56% |
| United | SmallGroup | $2,459.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $2,467.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $2,469.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $2,513.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,613.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,756.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,756.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $2,756.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | ASA | $2,839.60 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $3,143.25 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $3,143.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $3,445.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $3,486.00 | ↓ -35% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $3,502.00 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $3,527.58 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $3,527.58 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | COMM | $3,682.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $3,682.00 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $3,706.02 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS | PPO | $3,870.73 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $3,917.24 | ↓ -27% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $3,972.00 | ↓ -26% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $4,041.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | OON | $4,332.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Oscar | HIX | $4,723.00 | ↓ -12% |
| Humana | COMM | $4,926.00 | ↓ -9% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $5,388.23 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $5,388.23 | ↑ +0% |
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