Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$514.00
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.
$514.00
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.
$30.84 with Superior Health Plan vs $462.60 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 | $30.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $30.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $30.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $30.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $30.84 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $33.84 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $33.84 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $33.84 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $66.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $66.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $66.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $66.82 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $67.53 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $71.96 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $71.96 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BAV | $74.55 | ↓ -85% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $85.32 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $86.35 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $93.27 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $99.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $100.23 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | PPO | $106.64 | ↓ -79% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $121.82 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $121.82 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $123.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $131.07 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $140.32 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $153.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | CSN | $176.49 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $179.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $179.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $191.16 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $204.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $204.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $204.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $205.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $217.24 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $217.24 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $217.24 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $221.02 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | PPO | $227.44 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $231.30 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $231.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $231.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $255.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $255.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $255.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $273.96 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $275.94 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $275.94 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $275.94 | ↓ -46% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $282.70 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $282.70 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $308.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $308.40 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $308.40 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $308.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $334.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $385.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $411.20 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $421.48 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $436.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $436.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $436.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Humana | HMO | $448.81 | ↓ -13% |
| Humana | PPO | $448.81 | ↓ -13% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $462.60 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $68.95 | $40.12 – $197.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $68.95 | $47.70 – $197.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $33.84 – $448.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $33.84 – $448.81 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $179.62 | $10.00 – $224.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $181.17 | $12.00 – $271.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $181.17 | $12.00 – $226.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $179.62 | $10.00 – $224.53 |