Culture typing added method at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1336172105
$166.05
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.
$276.75
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.
$6.50 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $243.01 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $6.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $6.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $6.50 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $6.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $6.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $7.02 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $7.15 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $7.74 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $7.74 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $7.74 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $7.74 | ↓ -95% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $7.89 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $8.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $8.13 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $8.13 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $8.13 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $8.51 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $8.59 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $8.61 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $8.75 | ↓ -95% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $10.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $15.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $17.03 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $17.43 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | PPO | $21.17 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $21.17 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $23.24 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $45.36 | ↓ -73% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $98.14 | ↓ -41% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $154.95 | ↓ -7% |
| PHCS | PPO | $179.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $181.03 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | ASA | $181.03 | ↑ +9% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $193.69 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $224.68 | ↑ +35% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $227.26 | ↑ +37% |
| USA | MCO | $227.26 | ↑ +37% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $243.01 | ↑ +46% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $154.95 | $6.50 – $21.17 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $166.05 | $6.50 – $21.17 |
| MEDICAL CITY MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER - ALLIANCE | FORT WORTH | not published | $7.74 – $20.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $97.00 | $6.50 – $32.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $97.00 | $6.37 – $32.04 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen | Allen | $154.95 | $6.50 – $21.17 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound | Flower Mound | $154.95 | $6.50 – $21.17 |
| Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital | Arlington | $166.05 | $6.50 – $21.17 |