Histochemical stains add-on at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$594.00
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.
$594.00
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.
$35.64 with Superior Health Plan vs $642.49 with Humana — 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 | STARPLUS | $35.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $35.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $35.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $35.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $35.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $39.38 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $77.22 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $77.22 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $77.22 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $77.22 | ↓ -87% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $79.91 | ↓ -87% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $79.91 | ↓ -87% |
| United | SmallGroup | $79.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $83.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $83.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $98.60 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $99.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $103.95 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $103.95 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $115.83 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $117.61 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $140.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $140.78 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $141.97 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $142.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $151.47 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | BAV | $156.72 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $160.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $162.16 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $178.20 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | HMO | $196.08 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $207.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $207.90 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $210.14 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | PPO | $224.19 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $237.60 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $255.42 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $267.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $267.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $267.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | CSN | $292.45 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $298.55 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $316.60 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $316.76 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $326.70 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $326.70 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $356.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $356.40 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $356.40 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $356.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | PPO | $376.87 | ↓ -37% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $386.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $397.04 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $397.04 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $397.04 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $421.81 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $421.81 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $421.81 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $445.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $475.20 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $487.08 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $495.52 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $495.52 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $495.52 | ↓ -17% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $504.90 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $504.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $504.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $534.60 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $535.78 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $535.78 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $535.78 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | PPO | $642.49 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | HMO | $642.49 | ↑ +8% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $659.40 | $79.91 – $642.49 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $79.91 – $642.49 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $190.85 | $35.00 – $253.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $182.42 | $36.00 – $268.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $179.04 | $30.64 – $363.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $190.85 | $35.00 – $255.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $182.42 | $36.00 – $443.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $182.42 | $26.00 – $268.56 |