Hemodialysis repeated eval at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$4,333.00
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.
$4,333.00
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.
$77.00 with TriWest Health Alliance vs $3,899.70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $77.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $77.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $259.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $259.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $259.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $259.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $259.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $287.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $563.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $563.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $563.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $563.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $606.62 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $606.62 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $641.28 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $693.28 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $706.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $719.28 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $727.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $758.27 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $758.27 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $779.94 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $823.27 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $844.93 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $857.93 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $974.92 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $996.59 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,006.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,006.82 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,013.92 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1,026.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1,026.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,039.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,104.91 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,148.24 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1,169.91 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,182.91 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $1,299.90 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,390.89 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,390.89 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,390.89 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,481.89 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,481.89 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,481.89 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,516.55 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,516.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,733.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,737.53 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,737.53 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,737.53 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,863.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,876.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,876.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,876.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,949.85 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,949.85 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,949.85 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,309.49 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,383.15 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,383.15 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $2,599.80 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,599.80 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,599.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,599.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,816.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $3,249.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $3,466.40 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,553.06 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $3,683.05 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $3,683.05 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $3,683.05 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $3,899.70 | ↓ -10% |
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Hemodialysis repeated eval at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $2,977.79 | $85.92 – $1,006.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $2,316.85 | $85.92 – $1,006.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $2,991.51 | $85.92 – $1,006.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $2,123.70 | $74.21 – $1,006.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $5,791.92 | $77.00 – $1,006.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $5,304.20 | $85.92 – $1,006.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $2,881.23 | $83.79 – $1,006.82 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $2,755.01 | not published |