Artery x-rays lungs at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$18,086.00
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.
$18,086.00
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.
$144.74 with Texas Health Network vs $16,277.40 with Affiliated PPO — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $144.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $147.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $147.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $147.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $147.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $148.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $148.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $148.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $148.35 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $151.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $160.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $162.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $162.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $162.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $162.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $184.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | CSN | $262.88 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $284.50 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | PPO | $338.19 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $429.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $571.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $571.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $571.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $607.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $607.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $607.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $714.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $714.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $714.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $771.98 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $771.98 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $771.98 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1,085.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1,085.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1,085.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1,085.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1,085.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,539.90 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,539.90 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $3,002.28 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $3,038.45 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $4,340.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $4,611.93 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $4,877.45 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $4,937.48 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | BAV | $5,265.43 | ↓ -71% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5,437.15 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $6,330.10 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $6,330.10 | ↓ -65% |
| United | SmallGroup | $6,438.74 | ↓ -64% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $6,438.74 | ↓ -64% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $7,234.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $7,234.40 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $7,776.98 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $8,138.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $8,138.70 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $8,138.70 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | HMO | $9,422.35 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $9,639.84 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $9,782.62 | ↓ -46% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $9,947.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $9,947.30 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS | PPO | $10,115.17 | ↓ -44% |
| Triumph | COMM | $10,851.60 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $10,851.60 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $10,851.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $10,851.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $11,755.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $13,564.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $14,468.80 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $14,830.52 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $15,373.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $15,373.10 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $15,373.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $16,277.40 | ↓ -10% |
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Artery x-rays lungs at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,331.70 | $147.69 – $6,662.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,331.70 | $140.00 – $6,662.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $6,692.64 | $147.69 – $4,877.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $148.35 – $4,877.45 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,535.57 | $147.69 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,805.17 | $989.06 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,290.84 | $147.69 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,535.57 | $147.69 – $7,896.23 |