Ligation/biopsy of temporal artery 37609 at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance
10864 Texas Health Trail, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1215296884
$1,355.85
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.
$2,259.75
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.
$486.45 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $3,751.00 with United Healthcare Options — 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 | $486.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $486.45 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $486.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $486.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $510.77 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $525.37 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $535.10 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $908.42 | ↓ -33% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $1,062.08 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $1,159.48 | ↓ -14% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $1,180.49 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1,249.19 | ↓ -8% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $1,355.85 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,434.94 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,545.89 | ↑ +14% |
| PHCS | PPO | $1,570.53 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,575.05 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,584.08 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $1,584.08 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,593.12 | ↑ +17% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,661.86 | ↑ +23% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $1,661.86 | ↑ +23% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $1,694.81 | ↑ +25% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $1,695.09 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $1,728.33 | ↑ +27% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $1,744.95 | ↑ +29% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,744.95 | ↑ +29% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,744.95 | ↑ +29% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $1,828.04 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,844.66 | ↑ +36% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,877.90 | ↑ +39% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $1,941.13 | ↑ +43% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,965.98 | ↑ +45% |
| USA | MCO | $1,988.58 | ↑ +47% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $1,988.58 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $2,126.42 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $2,923.00 | ↑ +116% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $3,751.00 | ↑ +177% |
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Ligation/biopsy of temporal artery 37609 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $1,355.85 | $486.45 – $535.10 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $1,355.85 | $486.45 – $535.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | not published | $486.45 – $4,063.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $6,074.17 | $71.00 – $9,111.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $6,038.64 | $71.00 – $7,548.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $6,074.17 | $85.00 – $9,111.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $6,074.17 | $486.45 – $9,111.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $6,038.64 | $71.00 – $9,057.96 |