Flow cytometry one marker technical component 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.
$27.90 with Superior Health Plan vs $904.08 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $27.90 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $27.90 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $27.90 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $27.90 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $27.90 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $60.45 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $60.45 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $60.45 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $60.45 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $65.10 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $65.10 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $77.19 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $78.12 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $90.67 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $110.20 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $110.20 | — |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $111.60 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $118.58 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $126.94 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $162.75 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $162.75 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $186.00 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $199.95 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $209.25 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $209.25 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $209.25 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $247.84 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $255.75 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $255.75 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $260.57 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $279.00 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $279.00 | — |
| Triumph | COMM | $279.00 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $279.00 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $302.25 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $308.90 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $334.58 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $346.52 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $346.52 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $346.52 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $348.75 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $368.15 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $368.15 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $368.15 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $372.00 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $381.30 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $395.25 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $395.25 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $395.25 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $398.08 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $418.50 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $432.48 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $432.48 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $432.48 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $467.62 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $467.62 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $467.62 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $689.45 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $689.45 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $493.15 | $42.08 – $1,409.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $493.15 | $165.02 – $1,409.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $455.76 | $260.57 – $689.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $260.57 – $689.45 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $964.99 | $1,091.13 – $1,091.13 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,230.08 | $7.58 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,230.08 | $5.50 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,230.08 | $5.35 – $890.45 |