Vital capacity test at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1336172105
$174.75
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$291.25
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$37.75 with Cook Childrens vs $1,042.00 with United Healthcare Options — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $37.75 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $37.75 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $37.75 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $37.75 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $39.64 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $40.78 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $41.53 | ↓ -76% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $109.22 | ↓ -37% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $110.68 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $110.97 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $119.59 | ↓ -32% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $129.26 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $129.26 | ↓ -26% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $131.84 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $134.43 | ↓ -23% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $135.72 | ↓ -22% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $135.72 | ↓ -22% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $135.72 | ↓ -22% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $142.19 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $143.48 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $146.06 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $159.46 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $161.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $174.75 | ↑ +0% |
| PHCS | PPO | $202.42 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $203.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | ASA | $204.17 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $204.17 | ↑ +17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $218.44 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $219.02 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $243.19 | ↑ +39% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $253.39 | ↑ +45% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $256.30 | ↑ +47% |
| USA | MCO | $256.30 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $267.08 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $274.07 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $782.00 | ↑ +347% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $1,042.00 | ↑ +496% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Parkland | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Vital capacity test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $200.99 | $53.60 – $386.96 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $174.75 | $187.88 – $187.88 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $200.99 | $56.95 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $197.26 | $40.60 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $207.11 | $41.42 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $200.99 | $53.60 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $197.26 | $63.32 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $197.26 | $101.92 – $386.96 |