Biopsy/soft tissue/neck or thorax 21550 at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital
800 W Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1174533343
$4,562.25
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.
$7,603.75
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.
$486.45 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $11,469.45 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $486.45 | ↓ -89% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $486.45 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $486.45 | ↓ -89% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | $486.45 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $486.45 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $510.77 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $525.37 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $535.10 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $1,661.86 | ↓ -64% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,661.86 | ↓ -64% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $1,695.09 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $1,725.36 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $1,728.33 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,744.95 | ↓ -62% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $1,744.95 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,744.95 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $1,828.04 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,844.66 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,877.90 | ↓ -59% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $2,319.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $2,823.60 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $2,923.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $3,225.61 | ↓ -29% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $3,436.29 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $3,583.86 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $3,751.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,765.29 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $4,041.66 | ↓ -11% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $4,386.75 | ↓ -4% |
| PHCS | PPO | $5,081.32 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | PPO | $5,095.94 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $5,125.19 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | ASA | $5,125.19 | ↑ +12% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $5,483.44 | ↑ +20% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $6,360.79 | ↑ +39% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $6,433.90 | ↑ +41% |
| USA | MCO | $6,433.90 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $6,879.89 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $11,469.45 | ↑ +151% |
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Biopsy/soft tissue/neck or thorax 21550 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital Arlington | Arlington | not published | $486.45 – $535.10 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,832.04 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,809.57 | $71.00 – $4,214.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,284.35 | $71.00 – $4,105.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,832.04 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,809.57 | $85.00 – $4,214.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,809.57 | $486.45 – $4,214.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,284.35 | $71.00 – $4,926.52 |