Chest CT scan (with contrast) at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital
800 W Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1174533343
$2,656.20
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.
$4,427.00
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.
$171.74 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $4,165.81 with Cigna — 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 | $171.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $171.74 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $171.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | $171.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $171.74 | ↓ -94% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $176.49 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $176.49 | ↓ -93% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $180.02 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $180.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $183.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $185.32 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $185.32 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $185.32 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $185.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $188.91 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $194.14 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $195.90 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $199.43 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $505.48 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $614.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $683.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $916.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $963.00 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,115.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,222.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $1,291.76 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $1,458.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1,792.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,053.00 | ↓ -23% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $2,080.69 | ↓ -22% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $2,656.20 | ↑ +0% |
| PHCS | PPO | $3,076.77 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | ASA | $3,103.33 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $3,103.33 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $3,320.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,851.49 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $3,895.76 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $3,895.76 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $4,165.81 | ↑ +57% |
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Chest CT scan (with contrast) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital Arlington | Arlington | $2,656.20 | $171.74 – $188.91 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $4,293.93 | $849.15 – $849.15 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,003.90 | $167.39 – $2,504.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,167.00 | $236.02 – $3,250.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,659.49 | $167.39 – $3,324.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,003.90 | $167.39 – $2,504.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,167.00 | $167.39 – $3,250.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,167.00 | $171.74 – $3,250.49 |