Blood Culture Test at MEDICAL CITY WEATHERFORD HOSPITAL
713 East Anderson Street, Weatherford, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1417471467
$792.48
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.
$792.48
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.
$6.19 with Cook Childrens Health Plan vs $792.48 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 | STAR | $6.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $6.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STAR | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARPerinate | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARPLUS | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| United | STARKids | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| United | CHIP | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $9.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $9.36 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $9.36 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | TriWestGOV | $10.11 | ↓ -99% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $10.27 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | SNP | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | POS | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MCR | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MME | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Veterans | FED | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MGMCR | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MGMCRHMO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Mutual of Omaha | MGMCR | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCR | $10.37 | ↓ -99% |
| Care N Care | MGMCR | $10.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCR | $10.53 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MGMCR | $10.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Integranet | MGMCR | $10.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPPO | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRHMO | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| ProCare Advantge | MCR | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRSNP | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPOS | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRPFFS | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MGMCRDualEligible | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Plan of Texas, Inc. | MGMCR | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MCR | $10.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Independent Health Plan | MGMCR | $10.94 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $11.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Imperial Insurance Company | MCR | $11.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $13.12 | ↓ -98% |
| Verda Health Plan | MGMCR | $13.42 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MCR | $16.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MMP | $16.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MME | $16.41 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $17.65 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $18.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $18.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $18.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $19.25 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | COMM | $19.25 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | OON | $22.66 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | EPO | $23.12 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | HMO | $23.12 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $25.49 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $25.49 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $26.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Oscar | HIX | $26.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $27.04 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | PPO | $27.97 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $38.75 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $38.78 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $43.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | HMO | $43.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $43.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $54.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $55.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $55.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $55.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $55.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $55.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | IFP | $106.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $110.95 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | COMM | $114.64 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $190.99 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $204.46 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $351.86 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $417.64 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $466.77 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $466.77 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $554.74 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $562.66 | ↓ -29% |
| Parker County | LOGOV | $594.36 | ↓ -25% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $792.48 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $792.48 | ↑ +0% |
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