X-ray colon abdominal radiograph(s) & delayed images single contrast study at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$2,299.24
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.
$2,299.24
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.
$153.70 with Cook Childrens Health Plan vs $2,299.24 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 | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPerinate | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPLUS | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARKids | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STAR | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| United | CHIP | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $153.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $160.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $160.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $160.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $160.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $160.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $161.38 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $166.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $166.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $169.07 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $169.07 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | CHIP | $169.07 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $169.07 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $192.13 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $249.64 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $249.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $253.02 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $270.27 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMM | $270.27 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | IFP | $310.40 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OON | $319.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $321.89 | ↓ -86% |
| United | SmallGroup | $341.20 | ↓ -85% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $341.20 | ↓ -85% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $414.22 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $414.63 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $462.65 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $462.65 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | HMO | $462.65 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $508.13 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $563.31 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $585.54 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $593.20 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $743.46 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $743.46 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $777.14 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $779.90 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | PPO | $816.35 | ↓ -64% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $919.70 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $951.89 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $1,034.66 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,161.12 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $1,317.46 | ↓ -43% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,724.43 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,724.43 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,954.35 | ↓ -15% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,299.24 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $2,299.24 | ↑ +0% |
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