X-ray bone length studies at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$636.05
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.
$636.05
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.
$44.52 with Superior Health Plan vs $636.05 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 | MCDSTAR | $44.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $44.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $44.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $44.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $44.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPLUS | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARKids | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| United | CHIP | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STAR | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPerinate | $45.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $47.71 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $49.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $49.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $49.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $49.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | CHIP | $49.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $49.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $56.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $74.03 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $79.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMM | $79.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | IFP | $85.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $89.05 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OON | $93.58 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $123.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $123.82 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $138.16 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $138.16 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | HMO | $138.16 | ↓ -78% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $140.57 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $153.55 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $153.55 | ↓ -76% |
| United | SmallGroup | $154.52 | ↓ -76% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $154.52 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $155.83 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $164.10 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $174.86 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $214.98 | ↓ -66% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -61% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $254.42 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $263.32 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $286.22 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASA | $321.21 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $364.46 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $457.29 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $457.29 | ↓ -28% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $477.04 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $477.04 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $479.70 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | PPO | $502.12 | ↓ -21% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $540.64 | ↓ -15% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $636.05 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $636.05 | ↑ +0% |
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X-ray bone length studies at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $679.13 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $312.91 | $45.44 – $391.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $360.97 | $74.30 – $541.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $361.81 | $45.44 – $452.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $312.91 | $45.44 – $391.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $360.97 | $48.62 – $541.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $360.97 | $45.44 – $541.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $361.81 | $45.44 – $542.71 |