Chest X-ray at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1336172105
$457.05
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.
$761.75
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.
$33.75 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $722.00 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 | $33.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $33.75 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $33.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $33.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $35.44 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $36.45 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $37.13 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $49.24 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $53.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $56.78 | ↓ -88% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $60.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $70.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $71.45 | ↓ -84% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $77.55 | ↓ -83% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $87.42 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $87.42 | ↓ -81% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $89.17 | ↓ -80% |
| PHCS | PPO | $89.83 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | PPO | $90.09 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $90.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASA | $90.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $90.92 | ↓ -80% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $91.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $91.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $91.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $96.16 | ↓ -79% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $96.94 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $97.04 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $97.20 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $98.79 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $107.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $112.45 | ↓ -75% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $113.74 | ↓ -75% |
| USA | MCO | $113.74 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $118.52 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $121.62 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $551.00 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $722.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
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Chest X-ray 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 | $393.82 | $33.75 – $492.28 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $457.05 | $33.75 – $37.13 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $457.05 | $33.75 – $37.13 |
| MEDICAL CITY MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER - ALLIANCE | FORT WORTH | $569.20 | $38.63 – $38.63 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $923.84 | $307.27 – $307.27 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $393.82 | $33.75 – $492.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $341.32 | $70.25 – $511.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $412.77 | $33.75 – $515.96 |