Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$11,850.51
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$11,850.51
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.
$829.54 with Superior Health Plan vs $11,850.51 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 | STARHealth | $829.54 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $829.54 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $829.54 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $829.54 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $829.54 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,217.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $1,346.00 | ↓ -89% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $1,591.85 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $1,599.82 | ↓ -86% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,659.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $1,659.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,012.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $2,095.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $2,097.00 | ↓ -82% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,300.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,340.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,340.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $2,340.00 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $2,348.83 | ↓ -80% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $2,486.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $2,513.00 | ↓ -79% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,690.07 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $2,960.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,293.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $3,445.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMM | $3,682.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $3,682.00 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $3,735.29 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $3,735.29 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $4,005.47 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $4,192.00 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $4,192.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OON | $4,332.00 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $4,404.05 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | PPO | $4,599.79 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $5,261.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $6,245.22 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | COMM | $7,113.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $8,295.36 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $8,615.32 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $8,887.88 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $11,850.51 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $11,850.51 | ↑ +0% |
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