Culture body fluid 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.
$7.10 with Texas Health Network vs $475.20 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 | $7.10 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $7.24 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $7.24 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $7.24 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $7.24 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $7.24 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $7.24 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $7.24 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $7.24 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $7.38 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $7.82 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $7.96 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $7.96 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $7.96 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $7.96 | — |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $8.45 | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $8.58 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $8.62 | — |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $8.62 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $8.62 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $8.62 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $8.62 | — |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $8.62 | — |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $8.62 | — |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $8.62 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $8.62 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $8.62 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $8.62 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $8.62 | — |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $8.62 | — |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $8.62 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $8.62 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $8.62 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $8.62 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $8.62 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $8.62 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $8.69 | — |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $8.71 | — |
| United | MCR | $8.79 | — |
| WellCare | PFFS | $8.88 | — |
| WellCare | POS | $8.88 | — |
| WellCare | SNP | $8.88 | — |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $8.88 | — |
| WellCare | PPO | $8.88 | — |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $8.88 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $9.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $9.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $9.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $9.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $9.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $9.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $9.05 | — |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $9.05 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $9.05 | — |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $9.05 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $9.14 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $9.14 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $9.14 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $9.14 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $9.14 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $9.33 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $9.33 | — |
| Molina | MGMCR | $9.40 | — |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $10.34 | — |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $11.21 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $12.50 | — |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $12.50 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $13.36 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $13.36 | — |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $17.07 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $17.41 | — |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $18.10 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $18.53 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $19.22 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $24.05 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $24.91 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $25.77 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $25.86 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $27.50 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $31.57 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $31.68 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $31.68 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $31.68 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $31.68 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $31.68 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $34.86 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $37.75 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $41.99 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $41.99 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $41.99 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $44.61 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $44.61 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $44.61 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $44.92 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $52.40 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $52.40 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $52.40 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $56.66 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $56.66 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $56.66 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $87.65 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $88.70 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $115.12 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $115.12 | — |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $126.72 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $144.14 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $184.80 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $184.80 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $227.04 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $237.60 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $237.60 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $237.60 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $281.42 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $290.40 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $290.40 | — |
| Triumph | COMM | $316.80 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $316.80 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $316.80 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $316.80 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $343.20 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $396.00 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $422.40 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $432.96 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $448.80 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $448.80 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $448.80 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $475.20 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $263.55 | $6.21 – $753.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $263.55 | $6.21 – $753.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $7.24 – $34.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $7.24 – $34.86 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $456.65 | $7.76 – $33.19 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $171.29 | $7.24 – $43.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $145.35 | $7.22 – $52.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $165.55 | $7.24 – $43.83 |