F-18 fdg pet diag at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$3,482.00
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.
$3,482.00
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.
$208.92 with Superior Health Plan vs $3,133.80 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 | $208.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $208.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $208.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $208.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $208.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $230.86 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $382.20 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | BAV | $421.20 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $452.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $452.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $452.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $452.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $487.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $487.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $515.34 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | HMO | $526.50 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | PPO | $526.50 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $526.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $557.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $578.01 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $584.98 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $609.35 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $609.35 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $661.58 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $678.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $689.44 | ↓ -80% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $711.50 | ↓ -80% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $711.50 | ↓ -80% |
| United | SmallGroup | $711.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $825.23 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $825.23 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $835.68 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $887.91 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $940.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $950.59 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $1,044.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,117.72 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,117.72 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,117.72 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,190.84 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,190.84 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,190.84 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,218.70 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,218.70 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,392.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,392.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,396.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,396.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,396.28 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,497.26 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,507.71 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,507.71 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,507.71 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,566.90 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,566.90 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,566.90 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,855.91 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,899.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,899.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,915.10 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,915.10 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $2,089.20 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,089.20 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,089.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,089.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,263.30 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $2,611.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $2,785.60 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $2,855.24 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $2,959.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $2,959.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $2,959.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $3,133.80 | ↓ -10% |
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F-18 fdg pet diag at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,325.37 | $382.20 – $1,899.30 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $479.15 | $100.00 – $1,369.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $479.15 | $100.00 – $1,369.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $382.20 – $1,899.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $3,262.36 | $382.20 – $1,899.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $3,768.75 | $382.20 – $1,899.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $3,681.20 | $382.20 – $1,899.30 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $632.63 | $269.10 – $3,253.50 |