Mayo infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation cryptococcus at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST
100 Hillcrest Medical Blvd., Waco, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1891882833
$76.20
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.
$127.00
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.
$13.50 with Superior Health Plan vs $101.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | Medicaid | $13.50 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $14.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $15.27 | ↓ -80% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $15.59 | ↓ -80% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $16.07 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare | $16.07 | ↓ -79% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $16.87 | ↓ -78% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $16.87 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $16.87 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $18.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $19.28 | ↓ -75% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $20.17 | ↓ -74% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $20.26 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial Broad | $23.14 | ↓ -70% |
| Injury Management Organization | Med Select Network | $24.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $24.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $26.52 | ↓ -65% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $29.10 | ↓ -62% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $34.24 | ↓ -55% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | Workers Compensation | $35.65 | ↓ -53% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $38.57 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $47.93 | ↓ -37% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $47.93 | ↓ -37% |
| High Plains Health Plans | Commercial | $52.92 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $54.23 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $59.42 | ↓ -22% |
| MidCoast | Commercial | $59.42 | ↓ -22% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $59.42 | ↓ -22% |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | $62.66 | ↓ -18% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $62.66 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $63.74 | ↓ -16% |
| Independent Medical System | Commercial PPO | $64.82 | ↓ -15% |
| Curative | Commercial | $70.22 | ↓ -8% |
| Humana | Commercial HMO | $70.22 | ↓ -8% |
| First Health | PPO | $75.62 | ↓ -1% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $75.62 | ↓ -1% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $75.62 | ↓ -1% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $81.02 | ↑ +6% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $81.02 | ↑ +6% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $83.08 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $84.21 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $96.26 | ↑ +26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $101.40 | ↑ +33% |
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Mayo infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation cryptococcus at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Providence | Waco | $17.28 | $13.50 – $70.87 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $138.50 | $14.46 – $61.87 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $81.04 | $10.00 – $81.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $76.20 | $12.00 – $97.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $76.20 | $12.00 – $81.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $81.04 | $10.00 – $81.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $76.20 | $12.00 – $97.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $76.20 | $8.00 – $97.23 |