Aspirate pleura without imaging 32554 at MEDICAL CITY WEATHERFORD HOSPITAL
713 East Anderson Street, Weatherford, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1417471467
$1,621.88
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.
$1,621.88
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.
$218.95 with Cigna vs $4,332.00 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | IFP | $218.95 | ↓ -87% |
| United | STARPerinate | $223.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $223.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $223.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $223.75 | ↓ -86% |
| United | CHIP | $223.75 | ↓ -86% |
| United | STAR | $223.75 | ↓ -86% |
| United | STARKids | $223.75 | ↓ -86% |
| United | STARPLUS | $223.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $227.06 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $234.94 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $234.94 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $234.94 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $268.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $268.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $279.69 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $390.87 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $400.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $418.45 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | COMM | $502.62 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $517.38 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $517.38 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $543.33 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | PPO | $567.66 | ↓ -65% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $633.31 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $720.11 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $854.73 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $926.85 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $955.29 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $955.29 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $1,135.32 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,151.53 | ↓ -29% |
| Parker County | LOGOV | $1,216.41 | ↓ -25% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,603.00 | ↓ -1% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,621.88 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $1,621.88 | ↑ +0% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,738.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $2,095.00 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $2,097.00 | ↑ +29% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,300.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $2,340.00 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,340.00 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,340.00 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $2,513.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $2,960.00 | ↑ +83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,293.00 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $3,445.00 | ↑ +112% |
| Aetna | COMM | $3,682.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $3,682.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Aetna | OON | $4,332.00 | ↑ +167% |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,347.27 | $223.75 – $1,684.09 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,347.27 | $71.00 – $1,684.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,347.27 | $223.75 – $1,684.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,515.68 | $85.00 – $2,273.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,515.68 | $223.75 – $2,273.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,347.27 | $71.00 – $2,020.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,347.27 | $223.75 – $1,684.09 |