Injection, pentamidine iseth at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$1,759.40
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.
$1,759.40
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.
$123.16 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,759.40 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 | CHIP | $123.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $123.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $123.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $123.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $123.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | IFP | $237.52 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $237.52 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $246.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $350.12 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | EPO | $351.88 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $351.88 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | HMO | $351.88 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $358.70 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $358.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | COMM | $369.56 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $374.75 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMM | $374.75 | ↓ -79% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $399.38 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $439.85 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | OON | $441.61 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $525.05 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $525.05 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $551.04 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | PPO | $577.03 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $594.68 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $602.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $603.58 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $673.63 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $673.63 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | HMO | $673.63 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $715.31 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $781.17 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $852.21 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $1,279.08 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,319.55 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,759.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $1,759.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | ASA | not published by hospital | — |
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