Echo transesophageal intraop at MEDICAL CITY WEATHERFORD HOSPITAL
713 East Anderson Street, Weatherford, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1417471467
$4,289.25
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.
$4,289.25
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.
$249.26 with United vs $4,289.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | CHIP | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STARPerinate | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STARPLUS | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STARKids | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | STAR | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $261.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $269.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $269.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $300.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $300.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $300.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $300.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $300.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $311.57 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | IFP | $579.05 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $600.50 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $699.15 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | COMM | $711.22 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $892.16 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $1,020.84 | ↓ -76% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,033.71 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMM | $1,098.05 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $1,098.05 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | COMM | $1,106.63 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $1,132.36 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $1,132.36 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $1,173.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,265.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $1,265.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | HMO | $1,265.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | OON | $1,286.78 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $1,367.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $1,599.89 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,904.43 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $2,260.43 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $2,422.05 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $2,422.05 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $2,526.37 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $2,526.37 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2,541.41 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,660.77 | ↓ -38% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $3,002.47 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,045.37 | ↓ -29% |
| Parker County | LOGOV | $3,216.94 | ↓ -25% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $4,289.25 | ↑ +0% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,289.25 | ↑ +0% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - IRVING | Irving | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - LAKE POINTE | Rowlett | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - MCKINNEY | McKinney | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - FRISCO AT PGA PARKWAY | Frisco | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |