Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section first tissue block at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST
100 Hillcrest Medical Blvd., Waco, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1891882833
$282.52
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.
$470.86
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.
$56.50 with Superior Health Plan vs $905.49 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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| Superior Health Plan | Medicaid | $56.50 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $60.46 | ↓ -79% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | Workers Compensation | $155.38 | ↓ -45% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $162.59 | ↓ -42% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $166.02 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare | $171.15 | ↓ -39% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $171.15 | ↓ -39% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $171.30 | ↓ -39% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $179.71 | ↓ -36% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $179.71 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $179.71 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $191.69 | ↓ -32% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $201.53 | ↓ -29% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $205.38 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $208.92 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $208.92 | ↓ -26% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $214.79 | ↓ -24% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $215.82 | ↓ -24% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | $226.44 | ↓ -20% |
| High Plains Health Plans | Commercial | $230.67 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $236.37 | ↓ -16% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $255.87 | ↓ -9% |
| Injury Management Organization | Med Select Network | $255.87 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $258.97 | ↓ -8% |
| MidCoast | Commercial | $258.97 | ↓ -8% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $258.97 | ↓ -8% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $273.10 | ↓ -3% |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | $273.10 | ↓ -3% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $277.81 | ↓ -2% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $282.40 | ↓ -0% |
| Independent Medical System | Commercial PPO | $282.52 | ↑ +0% |
| Curative | Commercial | $306.06 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial HMO | $306.06 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $329.60 | ↑ +17% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $329.60 | ↑ +17% |
| First Health | PPO | $329.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $353.14 | ↑ +25% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $353.14 | ↑ +25% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $423.12 | ↑ +50% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $741.89 | ↑ +163% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $751.94 | ↑ +166% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $859.57 | ↑ +204% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $905.49 | ↑ +221% |
| Humana Military | TRICARE | not published by hospital | — |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $210.80 | $36.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $297.87 | $35.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $282.52 | $36.00 – $423.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $282.52 | $26.00 – $423.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $210.80 | $36.00 – $423.12 |