Design mlc device for imrt at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$1,630.00
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.
$1,630.00
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.
$211.90 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $2,212.14 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $211.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $211.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $211.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $211.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $228.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $228.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $270.58 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $273.84 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $317.85 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $386.31 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $386.31 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $391.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $415.65 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $444.99 | ↓ -73% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $511.78 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | HMO | $520.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $520.13 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | BAV | $564.91 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $570.50 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $570.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $652.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $652.00 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $700.90 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $733.50 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $733.50 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $733.50 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $838.98 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | PPO | $838.98 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | HMO | $838.98 | ↓ -49% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $868.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $896.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $896.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $978.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $978.00 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $978.00 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $978.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,059.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,222.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,231.28 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,304.00 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,336.60 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,385.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,385.50 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,385.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,467.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,636.49 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,636.49 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,636.49 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,740.84 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,740.84 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,740.84 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,046.92 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,046.92 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,046.92 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,212.14 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,212.14 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,212.14 | ↑ +36% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $7,167.30 | $335.59 – $20,478.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $7,167.30 | $408.30 – $20,478.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $511.78 – $5,151.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $511.78 – $5,151.26 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,980.92 | $357.33 – $2,476.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,981.28 | $407.81 – $2,971.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,677.86 | $335.57 – $2,097.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,980.92 | $268.47 – $2,476.16 |