Cholesterol body fluid at MEDICAL CITY FORT WORTH HOSPITAL
900 EIGHTH AVENUE, FT WORTH, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1659323772
$530.82
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.
$530.82
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.
$37.16 with Superior Health Plan vs $530.82 with Independent Medical Systems — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $37.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $37.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $37.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $37.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $37.16 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | IFP | $71.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $74.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $86.52 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $95.87 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $95.96 | ↓ -82% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $99.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Imperial Insurance Company | MCR | $100.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | HMO | $107.13 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $107.13 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.13 | ↓ -80% |
| Oscar | HIX | $110.41 | ↓ -79% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $116.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $126.34 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $130.05 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $131.11 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $131.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $135.50 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $135.89 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | COMM | $135.89 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $136.95 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $155.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OON | $159.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | COMM | $164.50 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $169.33 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $169.33 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $177.82 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $179.42 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | PPO | $185.79 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $235.68 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $238.87 | ↓ -55% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $238.87 | ↓ -55% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $265.41 | ↓ -50% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MGMCR | $265.41 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ASA | $279.74 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna Lifesource | COMM | $281.33 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $291.95 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $291.95 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $291.95 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $291.95 | ↓ -45% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $307.88 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $312.65 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $312.65 | ↓ -41% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $371.57 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $371.57 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $371.57 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $376.88 | ↓ -29% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | Commercial | $382.19 | ↓ -28% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $398.12 | ↓ -25% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $424.66 | ↓ -20% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $424.66 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $451.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum Transplant | COMM | $456.51 | ↓ -14% |
| Unicare | MCD | $530.82 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $530.82 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $530.82 | ↑ +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 |
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| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $716.44 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $462.06 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $136.71 | $53.34 – $275.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $24.90 | $14.50 – $96.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $523.04 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen | Allen | $100.35 | $7.11 – $10.28 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound | Flower Mound | $100.35 | $7.11 – $10.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $228.00 | $99.55 – $99.55 |