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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.
$23.03 with United vs $438.30 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 |
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| United | SmallGroup | $23.03 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $23.03 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $23.03 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $29.22 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $29.22 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $29.22 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $29.22 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $29.22 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $32.29 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $50.24 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $55.46 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $63.31 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $63.31 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $63.31 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $63.31 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $68.18 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $68.18 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $69.39 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $74.36 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $79.34 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $80.84 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $81.82 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $83.48 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $85.22 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $85.22 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $94.97 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $96.43 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $98.98 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.21 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $111.02 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $111.02 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $111.02 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $115.42 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $115.42 | — |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $116.88 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $117.95 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $117.95 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $117.95 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $124.19 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $127.56 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $131.49 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $132.95 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $138.56 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $138.56 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $138.56 | — |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $146.10 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $149.82 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $149.82 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $149.82 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $170.45 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $170.45 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $194.80 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $209.41 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $219.15 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $219.15 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $219.15 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $259.57 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $267.85 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $267.85 | — |
| Triumph | COMM | $292.20 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $292.20 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $292.20 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $292.20 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $310.53 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $310.53 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $316.55 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $365.25 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $389.60 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $399.34 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $413.95 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $413.95 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $413.95 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $438.30 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $151.55 | $29.84 – $433.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $151.55 | $36.31 – $433.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $61.56 | $23.03 – $310.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $23.03 – $310.53 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $425.72 | $95.75 – $95.75 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $541.20 | $7.58 – $60.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $541.20 | $5.50 – $40.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $541.20 | $5.35 – $128.58 |