Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$19,831.94
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.
$19,831.94
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.
$438.05 with Cook Childrens Health Plan vs $19,831.94 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| United | STAR | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| United | CHIP | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| United | STARPerinate | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| United | STARPLUS | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| United | STARKids | $438.05 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $459.95 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $473.09 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $473.09 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | CHIP | $481.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $481.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $481.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $481.86 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $487.19 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $536.31 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $536.31 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $547.56 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $627.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $860.20 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMM | $921.46 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $921.46 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | OON | $1,080.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1,388.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1,388.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $1,388.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $1,388.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1,388.24 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $1,592.57 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $1,592.57 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,623.62 | ↓ -92% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,623.62 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | COMM | $1,658.01 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,670.35 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,748.14 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | IFP | $2,677.31 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $2,776.47 | ↓ -86% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,938.37 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4,501.85 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $4,858.83 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $5,116.64 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $6,703.20 | ↓ -66% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $7,932.78 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $8,805.38 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $10,451.43 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $13,882.36 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $14,417.82 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $14,873.95 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $19,831.94 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $19,831.94 | ↑ +0% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $8,441.82 | $1,576.19 – $1,576.19 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,393.64 | $422.34 – $5,492.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,337.71 | $892.84 – $6,506.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,337.71 | $422.34 – $5,422.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,393.64 | $422.34 – $5,492.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,337.71 | $451.90 – $6,506.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,337.71 | $422.34 – $6,506.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $4,337.71 | $422.34 – $6,506.56 |