MRA chest w IV cont at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$7,181.77
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.
$7,181.77
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.
$341.20 with United vs $7,181.77 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 | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $341.20 | ↓ -95% |
| United | SmallGroup | $341.20 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $454.40 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $500.22 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $500.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $502.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $502.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $502.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $502.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $502.72 | ↓ -93% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $828.27 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | IFP | $969.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $969.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $1,005.45 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $1,429.17 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $1,485.40 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $1,485.40 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMM | $1,529.72 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $1,529.72 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,557.95 | ↓ -78% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,630.26 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,630.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | OON | $1,802.62 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $2,427.44 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,188.71 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $3,784.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $5,221.15 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $5,386.33 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $7,181.77 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $7,181.77 | ↑ +0% |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $14,794.04 | $672.06 – $699.43 |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $1,532.48 | $538.41 – $3,283.88 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,613.15 | $458.22 – $4,609.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $687.45 | $400.00 – $4,124.70 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $1,613.15 | $538.41 – $4,609.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $1,613.15 | $538.41 – $4,609.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $11,220.39 | $672.06 – $699.43 |