Dch validity tests at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$187.00
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.
$187.00
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.
$2.86 with Texas Health Network vs $168.30 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 | $2.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $2.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $2.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $2.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $2.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $2.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $2.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $2.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $2.92 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $2.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $3.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $3.21 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $3.21 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $3.21 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $3.21 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $3.41 | ↓ -98% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $3.46 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| United | SmallGroup | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $3.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | MCR | $3.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $3.51 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MCR | $3.55 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $3.58 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | SNP | $3.58 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | PPO | $3.58 | ↓ -98% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $3.58 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | POS | $3.58 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $3.58 | ↓ -98% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $3.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $3.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $3.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $3.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $3.69 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $3.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $3.79 | ↓ -98% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $4.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $4.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $5.05 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $5.05 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | HMO | $5.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | EPO | $5.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $6.89 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $7.03 | ↓ -96% |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $7.31 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $7.48 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $7.76 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $8.45 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | HMO | $9.71 | ↓ -95% |
| Oscar | HIX | $10.06 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $10.41 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | PPO | $11.10 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $11.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $11.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $11.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $11.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $11.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $12.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | CSN | $13.94 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $15.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $16.92 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $16.92 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $16.92 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | PPO | $17.97 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $17.98 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $17.98 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $17.98 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $21.12 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $21.12 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $21.12 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $22.84 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $22.84 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $22.84 | ↓ -88% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $31.04 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $31.42 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | HMO | $37.65 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | PPO | $37.65 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $44.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $51.05 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $65.45 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $65.45 | ↓ -65% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $80.41 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $84.15 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $84.15 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $84.15 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $99.67 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $102.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $102.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $112.20 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $112.20 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $112.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $112.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $121.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $140.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $149.60 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $153.34 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $158.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $158.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $158.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $168.30 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Dch validity tests at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $13.65 | $2.51 – $39.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $13.65 | $2.51 – $39.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $2.92 – $13.94 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2.92 – $13.94 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $35.80 | $2.92 – $44.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $19.38 | $3.99 – $29.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $24.61 | $2.92 – $30.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $35.80 | $2.92 – $44.75 |