Bedside drainage bag at Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital Arlington
811 Wright Street, Arlington, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1407169196
$37.37
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.
$62.28
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.
$0.31 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $13.29 with United Healthcare — 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 | $0.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $0.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $0.31 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $0.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $0.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $0.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $0.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $1.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $1.44 | ↓ -96% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $1.54 | ↓ -96% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $1.65 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1.92 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $1.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $2.11 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $2.21 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $2.34 | ↓ -94% |
| PHCS | PPO | $2.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2.45 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $2.46 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | ASA | $2.46 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $2.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3.05 | ↓ -92% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $3.09 | ↓ -92% |
| USA | MCO | $3.09 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $3.30 | ↓ -91% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $11.76 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $11.76 | ↓ -69% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $12.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $12.23 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $12.23 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $12.35 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $12.35 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $12.35 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $12.94 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $13.05 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $13.29 | ↓ -64% |
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Bedside drainage bag at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital | Arlington | $37.37 | not published |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $158.50 | $11.52 – $25.28 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $7.88 | $5.74 – $40.50 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $7.88 | $13.81 – $38.25 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen | Allen | $37.37 | not published |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound | Flower Mound | $37.37 | not published |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $7.88 | $13.81 – $49.95 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $37.37 | not published |