Ventilator initial day at MEDICAL CITY WEATHERFORD HOSPITAL
713 East Anderson Street, Weatherford, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1417471467
$1,886.39
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.
$1,886.39
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.
$132.05 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,485.24 with BCBS — 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 | MCDSTAR | $132.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $132.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $132.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $132.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $132.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | IFP | $254.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | QHP | $264.09 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $307.48 | ↓ -84% |
| Oscar | HIX | $392.37 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $448.96 | ↓ -76% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $454.62 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $482.92 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | COMM | $482.92 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | OON | $565.92 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | COMM | $661.22 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $837.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASA | $994.13 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $1,096.29 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | EXCLUSIVE | $1,111.08 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | NONEXCLUSIVE | $1,111.08 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $1,277.46 | ↓ -32% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $1,320.47 | ↓ -30% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,339.34 | ↓ -29% |
| Parker County | LOGOV | $1,414.79 | ↓ -25% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,886.39 | ↑ +0% |
| Independent Medical Systems | COMM | $1,886.39 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $2,262.26 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $2,262.26 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2,373.75 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,485.24 | ↑ +32% |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,879.12 | $375.82 – $2,348.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,002.58 | $534.02 – $2,503.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,501.44 | $481.96 – $2,252.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,501.44 | $775.74 – $3,235.82 |
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