Pt evaluation low complexity patient/family at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$345.81
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.
$345.81
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.
$24.21 with Superior Health Plan vs $592.25 with Humana — 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 | $24.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $24.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $24.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $24.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $24.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | IFP | $46.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $48.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Oscar | HIX | $71.93 | ↓ -79% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $78.50 | ↓ -77% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $85.49 | ↓ -75% |
| TriWest Veterans | FEDERAL | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | MGMCR | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MGMCR | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted Health | SNP | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted Health | POS | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted Health | MCR | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted Health | MME | $85.92 | ↓ -75% |
| United | MGMCR | $86.35 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | MGMCRHMO | $86.54 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $86.54 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | MCR | $86.65 | ↓ -75% |
| Care N Care | MGMCR | $86.78 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCR | $87.64 | ↓ -75% |
| WellCare | MGMCR | $88.50 | ↓ -74% |
| Integranet | MGMCR | $88.50 | ↓ -74% |
| American Health Plan of Texas, Inc. | MGMCR | $90.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRHMO | $90.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPPO | $90.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRDualEligible | $90.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPFFS | $90.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPOS | $90.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRSNP | $90.22 | ↓ -74% |
| ProCare Advantge | MCR | $90.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Texas Independent Health Plan | MGMCR | $91.08 | ↓ -74% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MCR | $91.08 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | MMP | $93.66 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | MCR | $93.66 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | MME | $93.66 | ↓ -73% |
| Imperial Insurance Company | MCR | $94.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Tricare | $95.39 | ↓ -72% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $98.34 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $106.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Verda Health Plan | MGMCR | $111.70 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $116.88 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $143.00 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $153.54 | ↓ -56% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $153.80 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $155.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | COMM | $155.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | OON | $179.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | ASA | $182.24 | ↓ -47% |
| Superior | EPO | $192.47 | ↓ -44% |
| Superior | HMO | $192.47 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $204.12 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $225.12 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $237.85 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $237.85 | ↓ -31% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $242.07 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $251.40 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $259.36 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $345.81 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $345.81 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $421.21 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $421.21 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $441.96 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS | PPO | $462.72 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | COMM | $592.25 | ↑ +71% |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $304.19 | $97.64 – $456.28 |
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