Lymphatics/lymph node imaging at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$4,980.80
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.
$4,980.80
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.
$329.79 with Amerigroup vs $4,980.80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| United | CHIP | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARKids | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STAR | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPerinate | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPLUS | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $329.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $346.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $348.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $348.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $348.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $348.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $348.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $356.17 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $356.17 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | CHIP | $362.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $362.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $362.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $362.77 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $368.83 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $406.02 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $406.02 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $412.24 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $470.94 | ↓ -91% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $611.66 | ↓ -88% |
| United | SmallGroup | $611.66 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $645.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $672.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $691.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | COMM | $691.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $697.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OON | $811.26 | ↓ -84% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -78% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,130.64 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $1,205.67 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $1,205.67 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,220.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | COMM | $1,248.27 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,264.56 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $1,285.05 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,323.44 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $1,683.51 | ↓ -66% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,992.32 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,211.48 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $2,624.88 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $3,486.56 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $3,621.04 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,735.60 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,980.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $4,980.80 | ↑ +0% |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,939.47 | $317.76 – $2,424.34 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,939.47 | $317.76 – $2,424.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,653.32 | $340.00 – $2,479.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,653.32 | $317.76 – $2,479.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,526.38 | $317.76 – $2,289.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,939.47 | $317.76 – $2,424.34 |