Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) CT scan (with contrast) at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1336172105
$2,612.85
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.
$4,354.75
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.
$173.75 with United Healthcare vs $4,097.82 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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| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $173.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $173.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $173.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $173.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $182.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $187.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $191.13 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $350.46 | ↓ -87% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $350.46 | ↓ -87% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $357.47 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $364.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $367.99 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $367.99 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $367.99 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $385.51 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $389.01 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $396.02 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $916.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $963.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $1,059.25 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,115.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,222.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,288.74 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,431.94 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $1,458.00 | ↓ -44% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $1,654.81 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $1,792.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,053.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $2,612.85 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $2,706.93 | ↑ +4% |
| PHCS | PPO | $3,026.55 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $3,052.68 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | ASA | $3,052.68 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $3,266.06 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,788.63 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $3,832.18 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $3,832.18 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $4,097.82 | ↑ +57% |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) CT scan (with contrast) 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 | $2,381.40 | $173.75 – $2,976.75 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $2,612.85 | $173.75 – $191.13 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $2,612.85 | $173.75 – $191.13 |
| MEDICAL CITY MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER - ALLIANCE | FORT WORTH | not published | $584.00 – $584.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $4,302.62 | $1,779.42 – $1,779.42 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,381.40 | $173.75 – $2,976.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,041.20 | $420.15 – $3,061.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,381.40 | $173.75 – $2,976.75 |