Cytopathology cellular enhancement technique non-gyn at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$605.00
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.
$605.00
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.
$36.30 with Superior Health Plan vs $544.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $36.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $36.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $36.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $36.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $36.30 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $49.76 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $49.76 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $49.76 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $78.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $78.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $78.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $78.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $84.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $84.70 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $99.93 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $100.43 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $101.64 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $110.32 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $117.97 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $138.02 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $143.38 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $143.38 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $145.20 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $147.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $149.85 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $154.28 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | PPO | $157.81 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $165.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | CSN | $165.58 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $179.35 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $199.29 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $199.29 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $199.29 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $211.72 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $211.72 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $211.72 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $211.75 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $211.75 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | PPO | $213.38 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $242.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $248.72 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $248.72 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $248.72 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $260.15 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $268.93 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $268.93 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $268.93 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $272.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $272.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $272.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $322.46 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $332.75 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $332.75 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $363.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $363.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $363.00 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $363.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $393.25 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | PPO | $412.24 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | HMO | $412.24 | ↓ -32% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $453.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $484.00 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $496.10 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $514.25 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $514.25 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $514.25 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $544.50 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $564.00 | $49.76 – $412.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $49.76 – $412.24 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $640.93 | $35.00 – $248.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $610.41 | $31.58 – $230.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $610.41 | $28.95 – $180.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $640.93 | $35.00 – $248.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $610.41 | $36.00 – $230.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $610.41 | $26.00 – $230.11 |