X-ray knee ap standing bilateral at MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
727 W BAILEY BOSWELL RD, SAGINAW, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1871911016
$1,060.06
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.
$1,060.06
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.
$40.10 with Parkland Community Health Plan vs $1,060.06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| United | CHIP | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| United | STAR | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| United | STARKids | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| United | STARPLUS | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| United | STARPerinate | $40.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $42.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $43.31 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $43.31 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $44.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | CHIP | $44.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $44.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $44.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $50.13 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $74.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $74.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $74.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $74.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $74.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $74.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $79.07 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMM | $79.07 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $83.86 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $83.86 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OON | $93.58 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $109.34 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $109.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $122.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $122.54 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $136.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $136.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | HMO | $136.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | IFP | $143.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $148.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $173.05 | ↓ -84% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $182.03 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $234.27 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $259.71 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $273.50 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $325.62 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $325.62 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $341.59 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | PPO | $357.55 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $358.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $424.02 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $438.86 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $477.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASA | $535.33 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $607.41 | ↓ -43% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $795.04 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $795.04 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $901.05 | ↓ -15% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,060.06 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $1,060.06 | ↑ +0% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $922.15 | $307.27 – $307.27 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $299.78 | $40.10 – $374.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $289.34 | $59.56 – $434.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $300.65 | $40.10 – $375.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $299.78 | $40.10 – $374.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $289.34 | $42.91 – $434.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $289.34 | $40.10 – $434.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $300.65 | $40.10 – $450.98 |