Bronchial brush biopsy at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville
411 N Belknap St, Stephenville, TX · Texashealth · · NPI 1922031541
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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.
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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.
$155.59 with Blue Cross Blue Shield vs $3,157.65 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | $155.59 | — |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $155.59 | — |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $155.59 | — |
| Superior Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $163.37 | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $168.04 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $392.90 | — |
| American Health | Medicare Advantage | $392.90 | — |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $400.76 | — |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $408.62 | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $412.55 | — |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $412.55 | — |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Advantage | $412.55 | — |
| Superior Wellcare | Medicare Advantage MMP | $432.19 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage PPO | $436.12 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage HMO | $443.98 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Exchange | $755.78 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $888.04 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $986.67 | — |
| Fort Worth Firefighters | Commercial | $996.00 | — |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,247.00 | — |
| United Healthcare Options | PPO | $1,568.00 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Traditional | $3,157.65 | — |
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Bronchial brush biopsy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $472.36 – $4,826.69 |
| CHRISTUS Children's Hospital | San Antonio | not published | $155.59 – $1,268.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $152.48 – $604.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $166.95 – $774.67 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $455.98 – $4,579.48 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $152.48 – $657.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $152.48 – $672.64 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $166.95 – $672.64 |