Echo exam of eye thickness 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.
$11.13 with Texas Health Network vs $213.00 with Healthcare Highways — 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 | $11.13 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $11.36 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $11.36 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $11.36 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $11.36 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $11.36 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $11.36 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $11.36 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $11.36 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $11.59 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $12.27 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $12.50 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $12.50 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $12.50 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $12.50 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $14.20 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $21.66 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $28.79 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $28.79 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $28.79 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $30.63 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $30.63 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $30.63 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $36.02 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $36.02 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $36.02 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $38.92 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $38.92 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $38.92 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $40.46 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $43.68 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $46.87 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $55.51 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $55.51 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $78.17 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $81.15 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $83.91 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $98.44 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $98.44 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $213.00 | — |
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Echo exam of eye thickness at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $11.36 – $40.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $11.36 – $40.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $107.10 | $22.04 – $160.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $100.69 | $11.36 – $125.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $107.10 | $12.16 – $160.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $107.10 | $11.36 – $160.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $100.69 | $11.36 – $151.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $107.10 | $11.36 – $133.88 |