Albumin body fluid quantitative each specimen at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST
100 Hillcrest Medical Blvd., Waco, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1891882833
$58.98
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.
$98.30
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.
$5.57 with Texas Workforce Commission vs $49.09 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.
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 |
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| Texas Workforce Commission | Workers Compensation | $5.57 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicaid | $6.54 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $7.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $7.39 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $7.49 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $7.49 | ↓ -87% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $7.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare | $7.78 | ↓ -87% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $7.78 | ↓ -87% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $8.17 | ↓ -86% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.17 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $8.17 | ↓ -86% |
| High Plains Health Plans | Commercial | $8.27 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $8.47 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $8.71 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $9.28 | ↓ -84% |
| MidCoast | Commercial | $9.28 | ↓ -84% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $9.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $9.34 | ↓ -84% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $9.76 | ↓ -83% |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | $9.79 | ↓ -83% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $9.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $9.81 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $9.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Independent Medical System | Commercial PPO | $10.13 | ↓ -83% |
| Curative | Commercial | $10.97 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Commercial HMO | $10.97 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | $11.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $11.63 | ↓ -80% |
| Injury Management Organization | Med Select Network | $11.63 | ↓ -80% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $11.82 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $11.82 | ↓ -80% |
| First Health | PPO | $11.82 | ↓ -80% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $12.66 | ↓ -79% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $12.66 | ↓ -79% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $12.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $14.55 | ↓ -75% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $17.12 | ↓ -71% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $18.67 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $40.22 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $40.77 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $46.60 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $49.09 | ↓ -17% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Albumin body fluid quantitative each specimen at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Providence | Waco | $23.76 | $6.54 – $34.31 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $61.52 | $6.08 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $58.98 | $2.08 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $61.52 | $6.54 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $61.52 | $6.54 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $58.98 | $7.00 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $58.98 | $6.54 – $18.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $61.52 | $6.54 – $18.67 |