Enzyme histochemistry at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$82.00
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.
$82.00
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.
$4.92 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,003.96 with BCBS — 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 | CHPFC | $4.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $4.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $4.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $4.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $4.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $10.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $10.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $10.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $10.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $11.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $11.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $13.61 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $13.78 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $15.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $19.43 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $19.43 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $19.68 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $20.91 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $22.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $28.70 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $28.70 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $32.80 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $35.26 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $36.90 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $36.90 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $36.90 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $43.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $45.10 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $45.10 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $49.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $49.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $49.20 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $49.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $53.30 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $61.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $65.60 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $67.24 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $69.70 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $69.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $69.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $73.80 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $434.04 | ↑ +429% |
| Cigna | CSN | $453.87 | ↑ +454% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $491.61 | ↑ +500% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $577.22 | ↑ +604% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $577.22 | ↑ +604% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $577.22 | ↑ +604% |
| Cigna | PPO | $584.90 | ↑ +613% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $613.24 | ↑ +648% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $613.24 | ↑ +648% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $613.24 | ↑ +648% |
| Humana | PPO | $627.88 | ↑ +666% |
| Humana | HMO | $627.88 | ↑ +666% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $656.15 | ↑ +700% |
| United | SmallGroup | $656.15 | ↑ +700% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $656.15 | ↑ +700% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $720.40 | ↑ +779% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $720.40 | ↑ +779% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $720.40 | ↑ +779% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $778.93 | ↑ +850% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $778.93 | ↑ +850% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $778.93 | ↑ +850% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,268.96 | ↑ +1448% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,400.89 | ↑ +1608% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,752.68 | ↑ +2037% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,878.32 | ↑ +2191% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,003.96 | ↑ +2344% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Enzyme histochemistry at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $712.15 | $434.04 – $1,268.96 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $530.95 | $138.52 – $1,517.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $530.95 | $274.90 – $1,517.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $434.04 – $1,268.96 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $514.38 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $530.20 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $460.32 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $514.38 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |