Thyroid imaging at MEDICAL CITY FORT WORTH HOSPITAL
900 EIGHTH AVENUE, FT WORTH, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1659323772
$1,525.76
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.
$1,525.76
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.
$106.80 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,525.76 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 | STARHealth | $106.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $106.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $106.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $106.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $106.80 | ↓ -93% |
| United | STARPerinate | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| United | CHIP | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| United | STAR | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| United | STARKids | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| United | STARPLUS | $171.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $180.33 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthspring Life | MCD | $180.33 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $185.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $185.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $188.91 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $188.91 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | CHIP | $188.91 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $188.91 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | IFP | $205.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $213.61 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $214.68 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $215.29 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $237.01 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $237.01 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $280.17 | ↓ -82% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $286.84 | ↓ -81% |
| Unicare | CHIP | $335.67 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $373.81 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $384.13 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $393.65 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $411.49 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMM | $411.49 | ↓ -73% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $471.74 | ↓ -69% |
| United | SmallGroup | $471.74 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | COMM | $472.83 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | OON | $482.63 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $515.71 | ↓ -66% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $610.30 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $677.44 | ↓ -56% |
| City of McKinney | COMM | $686.59 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare | MGMCR | $686.59 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $703.78 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $703.78 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $738.15 | ↓ -52% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MGMCR | $762.88 | ↓ -50% |
| National ChoiceCare | WCOMP | $762.88 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | PPO | $772.53 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | ASA | $804.08 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna Lifesource | COMM | $808.65 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Coop of TX | MGMCR | $839.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Health Group | WORKERSCOMP | $839.17 | ↓ -45% |
| PC Texas Partners | WCOMP | $839.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | WCOMP | $839.17 | ↓ -45% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -44% |
| Averde Health, Inc | PPO | $884.94 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $898.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $898.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Mega Life | MGMCRPPO | $1,068.03 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $1,068.03 | ↓ -30% |
| Coastal Comp Health Networks | WCOMP | $1,068.03 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,083.29 | ↓ -29% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | Commercial | $1,098.55 | ↓ -28% |
| LEWISVILLE ISD/DLS CONSULTING | COMMPPO | $1,144.32 | ↓ -25% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $1,220.61 | ↓ -20% |
| USC Health Services | COMM | $1,220.61 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $1,296.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum Transplant | COMM | $1,312.15 | ↓ -14% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,525.76 | ↑ +0% |
| Unicare | MCD | $1,525.76 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $1,525.76 | ↑ +0% |
| TCU ATHLETICS | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Thyroid imaging at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $673.01 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $577.80 | $118.93 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $577.80 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $673.01 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $577.80 | $183.76 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $577.80 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $577.80 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $673.01 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |