Artery x-rays chest at Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital Arlington
811 Wright Street, Arlington, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1407169196
$4,833.30
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.
$8,055.50
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.
$165.40 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $21,870.94 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 | $165.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $165.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $165.40 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $165.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $173.67 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $178.63 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $181.94 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $551.00 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $722.00 | ↓ -85% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $3,177.09 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $3,177.09 | ↓ -34% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $3,240.64 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $3,304.18 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $3,304.18 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $3,307.59 | ↓ -32% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $3,335.95 | ↓ -31% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,335.95 | ↓ -31% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $3,335.95 | ↓ -31% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $3,494.80 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $3,526.58 | ↓ -27% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $3,538.78 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,590.12 | ↓ -26% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $3,786.09 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $4,410.39 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $4,453.08 | ↓ -8% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $4,833.30 | ↑ +0% |
| PHCS | PPO | $5,598.57 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $5,614.68 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $5,646.91 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | ASA | $5,646.91 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $6,041.63 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $7,008.29 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $7,088.84 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $7,088.84 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $7,280.15 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $7,482.46 | ↑ +55% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $7,580.23 | ↑ +57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $8,089.37 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $21,870.94 | ↑ +353% |
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Artery x-rays chest at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital | Arlington | $4,833.30 | $165.40 – $181.94 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,498.28 | $514.23 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,943.48 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,498.28 | $176.98 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,498.28 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,943.48 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |