Electrolyte panel at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital
800 W Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1174533343
$193.35
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.
$322.25
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.
$5.89 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $303.24 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 | $5.89 | ↓ -97% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $5.89 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $5.89 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $5.89 | ↓ -97% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | $5.89 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $6.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $6.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $6.48 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $7.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $7.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $7.36 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $7.36 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $7.36 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $7.71 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $7.78 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $7.80 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $7.92 | ↓ -96% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $13.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $13.88 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $15.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $23.38 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $29.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | PPO | $29.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $31.17 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $41.09 | ↓ -79% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $151.46 | ↓ -22% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $193.35 | ↑ +0% |
| PHCS | PPO | $223.96 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | ASA | $225.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $225.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $241.69 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $280.36 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $283.58 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $283.58 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $303.24 | ↑ +57% |
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Electrolyte panel at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital Arlington | Arlington | $193.35 | $5.89 – $29.23 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $218.99 | $6.31 – $26.99 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $131.96 | $5.89 – $164.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $124.07 | $10.27 – $186.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $104.73 | $5.89 – $130.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $131.96 | $5.89 – $164.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $124.07 | $6.30 – $186.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $124.07 | $5.89 – $186.10 |