Injection, famotidine, 20 mg at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$28.74
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.
$28.74
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.
$2.00 with BCBS vs $28.74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $2.00 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $2.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $2.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $2.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $2.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $2.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $2.01 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $2.93 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $2.93 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $3.07 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | PPO | $3.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $3.88 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | IFP | $3.88 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $3.99 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $4.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $5.72 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | EPO | $5.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $5.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | HMO | $5.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | COMM | $6.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $6.12 | ↓ -79% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $6.52 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $7.18 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | OON | $7.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $7.59 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $7.59 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | HMO | $8.48 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $8.48 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $8.48 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $9.71 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $10.72 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | COMM | $12.09 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $12.76 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $20.89 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $21.55 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $28.74 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $28.74 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | ASA | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection, famotidine, 20 mg at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $59.37 | $16.46 – $16.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $33.06 | $1.14 – $16.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $55.79 | $1.14 – $16.46 |
| CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital - Beeville | Beeville | $4.17 | $1.72 – $3.32 |
| CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon | San Antonio | $8.74 | $0.88 – $3.21 |
| CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont | Beaumont | $4.65 | $2.26 – $3.84 |
| CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline | Corpus Christi | $4.12 | $1.44 – $3.32 |
| MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL | Argyle | $61.77 | $2.00 – $12.09 |