Ph body fluid at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST

100 Hillcrest Medical Blvd., Waco, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1891882833

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

$56.00

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.

$93.34

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.

$3.01 with Superior Health Plan vs $22.59 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 $3.01 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicaid/CHIP $3.22 ↓ -94%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan Medicare Advantage $3.40 ↓ -94%
CORVEL Worker's Compensation $3.47 ↓ -94%
TriWest Community Care Network $3.58 ↓ -94%
Humana Medicare $3.58 ↓ -94%
ProCare Advantage Medicare Advantage $3.76 ↓ -93%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $3.76 ↓ -93%
American Health Plan Medicare Advantage $3.76 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $4.01 ↓ -93%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Small Group $4.30 ↓ -92%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Individual $4.49 ↓ -92%
Prime Health Services Worker's Compensation $4.51 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Commercial Broad $5.16 ↓ -91%
Injury Management Organization Med Select Network $5.35 ↓ -90%
Sedgwick Preferred Network $5.35 ↓ -90%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Plus - Small Group $5.91 ↓ -89%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee $7.28 ↓ -87%
Texas Workforce Commission Workers Compensation $8.55 ↓ -85%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) $8.56 ↓ -85%
Mark Cuban Commercial $8.59 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Nexus $11.49 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Charter $11.49 ↓ -79%
High Plains Health Plans Commercial $12.69 ↓ -77%
Cigna Local Plus $13.00 ↓ -77%
QuikTrip Employee Benefit Plan $14.24 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $14.24 ↓ -75%
MidCoast Commercial $14.24 ↓ -75%
Imagine Health Commercial $15.02 ↓ -73%
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Commercial $15.02 ↓ -73%
Cigna HMO/PPO $15.28 ↓ -73%
Independent Medical System Commercial PPO $15.54 ↓ -72%
Curative Commercial $16.84 ↓ -70%
Humana Commercial HMO $16.84 ↓ -70%
First Health PPO $18.13 ↓ -68%
HealthSmart Accel Network $18.13 ↓ -68%
Humana Commercial PPO $18.13 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth $18.51 ↓ -67%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Advantage $18.76 ↓ -67%
Private Health Care System PHCS Network $19.43 ↓ -65%
HealthSmart Preferred Network $19.43 ↓ -65%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Essentials (HMO) $21.44 ↓ -62%
Blue Cross Blue Shield BlueChoice (PPO) $22.59 ↓ -60%

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