Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1336172105
$1,859.40
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.
$3,099.00
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.
$401.63 with United Healthcare vs $4,003.00 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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| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $401.63 | ↓ -78% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $401.63 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $401.63 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $401.63 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $421.77 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $433.86 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $441.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $787.49 | ↓ -58% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $787.49 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $803.24 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $818.99 | ↓ -56% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $826.87 | ↓ -56% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $826.87 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $826.87 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $828.56 | ↓ -55% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $866.24 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $874.12 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $889.87 | ↓ -52% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $1,162.13 | ↓ -37% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $1,177.62 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $1,196.83 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,595.99 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,708.18 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1,713.13 | ↓ -8% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $1,859.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,898.13 | ↑ +2% |
| PHCS | PPO | $2,153.81 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,160.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $2,172.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | ASA | $2,172.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $2,324.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,696.13 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $2,727.12 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $2,727.12 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $2,841.78 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $2,916.16 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $3,009.00 | ↑ +62% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $4,003.00 | ↑ +115% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $1,859.40 | $828.56 – $828.56 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $1,859.40 | $828.56 – $828.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $12,383.32 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $4,974.84 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $2,850.54 | $2,321.60 – $2,321.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $18,772.48 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $1,356.90 | $100.00 – $8,141.40 |