Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth
6100 Harris Pkwy, Fort Worth, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1417980202
$1,178.85
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.
$1,964.75
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.
$334.95 with Cook Childrens vs $1,620.92 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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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| Cook Childrens | Managed Medicaid | $334.95 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $334.95 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $334.95 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $334.95 | ↓ -72% |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $351.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $361.75 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Managed Medicaid | $368.45 | ↓ -69% |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $378.00 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $440.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $569.78 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $578.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $606.53 | ↓ -49% |
| City of Fort Worth | Commercial | $738.14 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $808.81 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | OAP/HMO | $868.17 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $907.71 | ↓ -23% |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $912.62 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $912.62 | ↓ -23% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $930.87 | ↓ -21% |
| Quick Trip | Commercial | $942.30 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $949.12 | ↓ -19% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $958.25 | ↓ -19% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $958.25 | ↓ -19% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $958.25 | ↓ -19% |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $1,003.88 | ↓ -15% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,009.88 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,013.01 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,031.26 | ↓ -13% |
| PHCS | PPO | $1,091.50 | ↓ -7% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,094.64 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Coventry | $1,100.92 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,100.92 | ↓ -7% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial | $1,177.88 | ↓ -0% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,366.34 | ↑ +16% |
| Galaxy | Commercial | $1,382.04 | ↑ +17% |
| USA | MCO | $1,382.04 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Indemnity | $1,477.84 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $1,620.92 | ↑ +38% |
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Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance 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 | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $1,178.85 | $334.95 – $368.45 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth | Fort Worth | $1,178.85 | $334.95 – $368.45 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,666.30 | $71.00 – $2,499.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,457.75 | $71.00 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,666.30 | $85.00 – $2,499.44 |