Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital Arlington
811 Wright Street, Arlington, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1407169196
$1,448.70
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.
$2,414.50
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.
$141.27 with Amerigroup vs $1,789.84 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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| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $141.27 | ↓ -90% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $141.27 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $141.27 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $141.27 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $148.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $152.53 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $155.39 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $460.30 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $651.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $697.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $733.31 | ↓ -49% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $746.01 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $815.85 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $820.93 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $869.02 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $869.81 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $877.43 | ↓ -39% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $952.35 | ↓ -34% |
| PHCS | PPO | $1,103.14 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,106.31 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,112.66 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $1,112.66 | ↓ -23% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $1,190.44 | ↓ -18% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $1,309.48 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,380.91 | ↓ -5% |
| USA | MCO | $1,396.78 | ↓ -4% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $1,396.78 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $1,493.60 | ↑ +3% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $1,583.93 | ↑ +9% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,583.93 | ↑ +9% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $1,615.61 | ↑ +12% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,647.29 | ↑ +14% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $1,647.29 | ↑ +14% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,663.13 | ↑ +15% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,663.13 | ↑ +15% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $1,663.13 | ↑ +15% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $1,742.33 | ↑ +20% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,758.17 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,789.84 | ↑ +24% |
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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital | Arlington | $1,448.70 | not published |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,754.69 | $2,038.91 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,835.30 | $520.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,584.85 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,653.31 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,835.30 | $489.41 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,584.85 | $85.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,584.85 | $818.84 – $3,967.42 |