Venipuncture >= 3 years diagnostic/therapeutic (not to be used for routine venipuncture) at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1336172105
$208.50
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.
$347.50
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.
$18.83 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $314.29 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 | Medicare Advantage | $18.83 | ↓ -91% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $18.83 | ↓ -91% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $19.21 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $19.59 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $19.78 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $19.78 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $19.78 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $20.72 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $20.91 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $21.28 | ↓ -90% |
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $43.29 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $43.29 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $43.29 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $43.29 | ↓ -79% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $45.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $46.76 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $47.63 | ↓ -77% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $125.25 | ↓ -40% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $126.92 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $127.25 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $137.14 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $172.74 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $182.87 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $183.03 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $184.64 | ↓ -11% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $200.40 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $220.66 | ↑ +6% |
| PHCS | PPO | $232.13 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | PPO | $232.80 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $234.13 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | ASA | $234.13 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $244.99 | ↑ +18% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $250.50 | ↑ +20% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $290.58 | ↑ +39% |
| USA | MCO | $293.92 | ↑ +41% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $293.92 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $298.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $314.29 | ↑ +51% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Venipuncture >= 3 years diagnostic/therapeutic (not to be used for routine venipuncture) 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 | $1,385.30 | $369.41 – $1,962.51 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $208.50 | not published |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $208.50 | not published |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,385.30 | $392.50 – $1,962.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,944.23 | $7.62 – $55.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,717.67 | $12.00 – $2,147.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,385.30 | $369.41 – $1,962.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,944.23 | $11.89 – $85.00 |