Blood smear interpretation at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1336172105
$101.70
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.
$169.50
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.
$16.57 with Fort Worth Firefighters vs $159.50 with Cigna — 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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| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $16.57 | ↓ -84% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $19.03 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $19.03 | ↓ -81% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $19.41 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $19.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $19.98 | ↓ -80% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $19.98 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $19.98 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $20.94 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $21.13 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $21.51 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $21.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $21.97 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $21.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $21.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $23.07 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $23.73 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $24.17 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $25.26 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $25.26 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $28.06 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $49.96 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $54.61 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $55.51 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | PPO | $57.65 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $57.65 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $72.81 | ↓ -28% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $79.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $101.70 | ↑ +0% |
| PHCS | PPO | $117.80 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $118.82 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | ASA | $118.82 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $127.13 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $147.47 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $147.87 | ↑ +45% |
| USA | MCO | $149.16 | ↑ +47% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $149.16 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $159.50 | ↑ +57% |
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Blood smear interpretation 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 | $248.70 | $10.00 – $89.17 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | not published | $16.57 – $16.57 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth | Fort Worth | not published | $16.57 – $16.57 |
| MEDICAL CITY MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER - ALLIANCE | FORT WORTH | not published | $31.16 – $31.16 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $69.08 | $97.14 – $97.14 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $248.70 | $10.00 – $89.17 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $248.70 | $12.00 – $116.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $248.70 | $12.00 – $130.44 |