Carotene at MEDICAL CITY FORT WORTH HOSPITAL
900 EIGHTH AVENUE, FT WORTH, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1659323772
$688.86
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.
$688.86
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.
$5.53 with Cook Childrens Health Plan vs $688.86 with National Healthcare Solutions — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $5.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $5.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $7.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $7.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United | CHIP | $7.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $7.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARPerinate | $7.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARPLUS | $7.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARKids | $7.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STAR | $7.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $8.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring Life | MCD | $8.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $8.36 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $8.36 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $8.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $8.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $8.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | CHIP | $8.51 | ↓ -99% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $9.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MGMCR | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | POS | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | SNP | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MGMCRHMO | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest | FEDERAL | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MGMCR | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MCR | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MME | $9.22 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCR | $9.27 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCR | $9.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Care N Care | MGMCR | $9.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCR | $9.40 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MGMCR | $9.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Integranet | MGMCR | $9.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRSNP | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| ProCare Advantge | MCR | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Plan of Texas, Inc. | MGMCR | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPFFS | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPOS | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRHMO | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPPO | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRDualEligible | $9.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MCR | $9.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Independent Health Plan | MGMCR | $9.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Tricare | $9.93 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MMP | $10.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MME | $10.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MCR | $10.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Imperial Insurance Company | MCR | $10.14 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $10.24 | ↓ -99% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $11.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $11.72 | ↓ -98% |
| Verda Health Plan | MGMCR | $11.99 | ↓ -98% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPFFS | $13.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Bravo Health | MCRSNP | $13.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPPO | $13.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Bravo Health | MCRPOS | $13.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Bravo Health | MCRHMO | $13.83 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $15.77 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $16.14 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $16.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $16.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $16.50 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $17.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | COMM | $17.20 | ↓ -98% |
| USA Managed Care | WORKERSCOMP | $17.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $18.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | OON | $20.24 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | EPO | $20.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | HMO | $20.65 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $22.77 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $22.77 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $23.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Oscar | HIX | $23.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $24.16 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | PPO | $24.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $36.24 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $36.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | HMO | $40.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $40.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $40.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $48.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $48.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $48.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $48.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $48.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $51.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | IFP | $93.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $96.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | COMM | $102.49 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $129.51 | ↓ -81% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $151.55 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $168.77 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $177.73 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $232.83 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $305.85 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $309.99 | ↓ -55% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $309.99 | ↓ -55% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $344.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MGMCR | $344.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $363.03 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna Lifesource | COMM | $365.10 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $378.87 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $378.87 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $378.87 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $378.87 | ↓ -45% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $399.54 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $405.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $405.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $482.20 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $482.20 | ↓ -30% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $482.20 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $489.09 | ↓ -29% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | Commercial | $495.98 | ↓ -28% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $516.64 | ↓ -25% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $551.09 | ↓ -20% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $551.09 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $585.53 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum Transplant | COMM | $592.42 | ↓ -14% |
| Unicare | MCD | $688.86 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $688.86 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $688.86 | ↑ +0% |
| TCU ATHLETICS | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $83.84 | $7.74 – $25.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $283.20 | $4.17 – $30.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $283.20 | $7.74 – $25.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $83.84 | $7.74 – $25.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $283.20 | $8.28 – $30.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $283.20 | $7.74 – $30.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $283.20 | $7.74 – $30.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $83.84 | $7.74 – $25.31 |