Arthrocentesis/aspiration/injection small joint/bursa without ultrasound guidance at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1336172105
$361.05
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.
$601.75
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.
$22.70 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $1,568.00 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 | $22.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $22.70 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $22.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $22.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $23.84 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $24.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $24.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $31.30 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $58.52 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $65.01 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $208.06 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $223.42 | ↓ -38% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $225.66 | ↓ -37% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $228.67 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $297.93 | ↓ -17% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $308.35 | ↓ -15% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $308.35 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $314.52 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $319.79 | ↓ -11% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $320.68 | ↓ -11% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $323.77 | ↓ -10% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $323.77 | ↓ -10% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $323.77 | ↓ -10% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $339.19 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $342.27 | ↓ -5% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $347.10 | ↓ -4% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $348.44 | ↓ -3% |
| PHCS | PPO | $402.06 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | PPO | $403.21 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | ASA | $405.53 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $405.53 | ↑ +12% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $433.88 | ↑ +20% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $503.30 | ↑ +39% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $509.08 | ↑ +41% |
| USA | MCO | $509.08 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $544.37 | ↑ +51% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,247.00 | ↑ +245% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $1,568.00 | ↑ +334% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Arthrocentesis/aspiration/injection small joint/bursa without ultrasound guidance at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $602.98 | $22.70 – $753.73 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $361.05 | $22.70 – $24.97 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $354.75 | $22.70 – $24.97 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $602.98 | $22.70 – $753.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $471.34 | $24.29 – $733.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $599.59 | $22.70 – $749.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $602.98 | $22.70 – $753.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $471.34 | $24.29 – $733.72 |