Bundled special stain group 1 microorganisms at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
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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.
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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.
$17.52 with Superior Health Plan vs $722.88 with Humana — 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $17.52 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $17.52 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $17.52 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $17.52 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $17.52 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $37.96 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $37.96 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $37.96 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $37.96 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $40.88 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $40.88 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $48.47 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $49.06 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $49.76 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $49.76 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $49.76 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $56.94 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $69.20 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $69.20 | — |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $70.08 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $74.46 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $79.72 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $99.93 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $102.20 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $102.20 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $110.32 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $116.80 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $125.56 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $131.40 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $131.40 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $131.40 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $138.02 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $147.92 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $155.64 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $157.81 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $160.60 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $160.60 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $175.20 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $175.20 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $175.20 | — |
| Triumph | COMM | $175.20 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $189.80 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $219.00 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $233.60 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $239.44 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $248.20 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $248.20 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $248.20 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $262.80 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $332.48 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $359.35 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $389.22 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $442.16 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $442.16 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $442.16 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $463.08 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $469.75 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $469.75 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $469.75 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $551.84 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $551.84 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $551.84 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $596.68 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $596.68 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $596.68 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $722.88 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $722.88 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Bundled special stain group 1 microorganisms at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $178.85 | $42.08 – $511.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $178.85 | $67.05 – $511.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $49.76 – $722.88 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $49.76 – $722.88 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $211.52 | $190.46 – $190.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $166.15 | $35.00 – $207.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $176.36 | $36.00 – $264.55 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $171.22 | $34.24 – $214.03 |