Albumin serum plasma or whole blood at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA

5330 Overpass Road, Suite 110, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1144781501

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jun 13, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$56.80

Cash price

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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.

$94.66

Gross charge

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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.

$4.16 with Superior Health Plan vs $31.23 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Superior Health Plan Medicaid $4.16 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicaid/CHIP $4.45 ↓ -92%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan Medicare Advantage $4.70 ↓ -92%
Humana Medicare $4.95 ↓ -91%
TriWest Community Care Network $4.95 ↓ -91%
Superior Health Plan Medicare HMO/Medicare PPO $4.95 ↓ -91%
American Health Plan Medicare Advantage $5.20 ↓ -91%
HealthSpring Medicare Advantage $5.20 ↓ -91%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $5.20 ↓ -91%
ProCare Advantage Medicare Advantage $5.20 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $5.54 ↓ -90%
Cigna Local Plus $5.78 ↓ -90%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Small Group $5.94 ↓ -90%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Individual $6.21 ↓ -89%
Cigna HMO/PPO $6.75 ↓ -88%
Aetna Commercial $6.85 ↓ -88%
QuikTrip Employee Benefit Plan $6.85 ↓ -88%
MidCoast Commercial $6.85 ↓ -88%
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Commercial $7.22 ↓ -87%
Curative Commercial $8.09 ↓ -86%
Humana Commercial HMO $8.09 ↓ -86%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Plus - Small Group $8.17 ↓ -86%
Humana Commercial PPO $8.71 ↓ -85%
First Health PPO $8.71 ↓ -85%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee $9.10 ↓ -84%
Private Health Care System PHCS Network $9.34 ↓ -84%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) $10.70 ↓ -81%
Mark Cuban Commercial $11.88 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Commercial $12.00 ↓ -79%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth $25.59 ↓ -55%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Advantage $25.94 ↓ -54%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Essentials (HMO) $29.65 ↓ -48%
Blue Cross Blue Shield BlueChoice (PPO) $31.23 ↓ -45%

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Albumin serum plasma or whole blood at other Texas hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Adventhealth Rollins Brook Lampasas $93.53 $4.46 – $19.06
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Dallas $53.23 $4.16 – $11.88
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM Brenham $49.74 $1.54 – $11.88
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL Frisco $53.23 $4.16 – $11.88
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION College Station $49.74 $4.45 – $11.88
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL Temple $49.74 $4.16 – $11.88
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK Cedar Park $56.80 $4.16 – $11.88
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH Fort Worth $53.23 $4.16 – $11.88

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