I131 iodide cap, rx at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$188.00
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.
$188.00
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.
$11.28 with Superior Health Plan vs $600.00 with Texas Athletic Network — 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 | STARKids | $11.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $11.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $11.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $11.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $11.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $24.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $24.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $24.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $24.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $26.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $26.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $31.21 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $31.58 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $36.66 | ↓ -81% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $39.72 | ↓ -79% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $39.72 | ↓ -79% |
| United | SmallGroup | $39.72 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $40.55 | ↓ -78% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $44.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $44.56 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BAV | $44.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $45.12 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $47.94 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $49.82 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $51.32 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $55.86 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $55.86 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | HMO | $55.86 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $60.35 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $60.35 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $60.35 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $64.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $64.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $64.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $65.80 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $65.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $75.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $75.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $75.39 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $75.39 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $75.39 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $80.84 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $81.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $81.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $81.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $84.60 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $84.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $84.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $100.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $103.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $103.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $112.80 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $112.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $112.80 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $112.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $122.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $141.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $150.40 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $154.16 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $159.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $159.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $159.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $169.20 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | CSN | $196.96 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $213.24 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | PPO | $253.94 | ↑ +35% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Humana | HMO | $417.26 | ↑ +122% |
| Humana | PPO | $417.26 | ↑ +122% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↑ +166% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↑ +219% |
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I131 iodide cap, rx at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $481.12 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $24.85 | $18.62 – $71.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $24.85 | $18.46 – $71.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $1,040.75 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $42.00 | $77.38 – $82.61 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $391.11 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $468.71 | $39.72 – $417.26 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $31.22 | $20.82 – $187.28 |