Lithium therapeutic drug level at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST
100 Hillcrest Medical Blvd., Waco, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1891882833
$79.84
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.
$133.06
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.
$5.55 with Superior Health Plan vs $99.80 with HealthSmart — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | Medicaid | $5.55 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $5.94 | ↓ -93% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.28 | ↓ -92% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $6.41 | ↓ -92% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $6.61 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare | $6.61 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $6.94 | ↓ -91% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $6.94 | ↓ -91% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.94 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $7.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $7.93 | ↓ -90% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $8.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $8.34 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | $9.52 | ↓ -88% |
| Injury Management Organization | Med Select Network | $9.88 | ↓ -88% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $9.88 | ↓ -88% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $10.91 | ↓ -86% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $12.73 | ↓ -84% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $14.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $15.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $34.17 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $34.64 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $39.59 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $41.71 | ↓ -48% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | Workers Compensation | $43.91 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $59.04 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $59.04 | ↓ -26% |
| High Plains Health Plans | Commercial | $65.19 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $66.80 | ↓ -16% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $73.18 | ↓ -8% |
| MidCoast | Commercial | $73.18 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $73.18 | ↓ -8% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $77.17 | ↓ -3% |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | $77.17 | ↓ -3% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $78.51 | ↓ -2% |
| Independent Medical System | Commercial PPO | $79.84 | ↑ +0% |
| Curative | Commercial | $86.49 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial HMO | $86.49 | ↑ +8% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $93.14 | ↑ +17% |
| First Health | PPO | $93.14 | ↑ +17% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $93.14 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $99.80 | ↑ +25% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $99.80 | ↑ +25% |
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Lithium therapeutic drug level at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Providence | Waco | $48.78 | $5.55 – $29.15 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $136.09 | $5.95 – $25.45 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $95.88 | $5.55 – $119.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $79.84 | $9.69 – $119.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $95.88 | $5.55 – $119.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $95.88 | $5.55 – $119.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $79.84 | $5.94 – $119.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $79.84 | $5.55 – $119.75 |