Immunofluorescence per specimen each additional single antibody stain at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$664.00
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.
$664.00
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.
$39.84 with Superior Health Plan vs $615.36 with Aetna — 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 | $39.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $39.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $39.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $39.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $39.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $44.02 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $81.30 | ↓ -88% |
| United | SmallGroup | $81.30 | ↓ -88% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $81.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $86.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $86.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $86.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $86.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $92.96 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $92.96 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $98.27 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | BAV | $108.49 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $110.22 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $111.55 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $116.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $116.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $129.48 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $131.47 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $135.73 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $145.46 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | PPO | $155.19 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $157.37 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $157.37 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $159.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $169.32 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $179.28 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $181.27 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $199.20 | ↓ -70% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $232.40 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $232.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $265.60 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $285.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $298.80 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $298.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $298.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $342.89 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $353.91 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $365.20 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $365.20 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | CSN | $366.32 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $396.77 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $398.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $398.40 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $398.40 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $398.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $431.60 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | PPO | $442.11 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | HMO | $442.11 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $456.01 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $456.01 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $456.01 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | PPO | $472.07 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $484.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $484.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $484.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $498.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $531.20 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $544.48 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $564.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $564.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $564.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $569.12 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $569.12 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $569.12 | ↓ -14% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $597.60 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $615.36 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $615.36 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $615.36 | ↓ -7% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Immunofluorescence per specimen each additional single antibody stain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $592.14 | $81.30 – $442.11 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $277.55 | $58.38 – $793.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $277.55 | $65.34 – $793.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $81.30 – $442.11 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,007.00 | $13.80 – $118.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,007.00 | $10.03 – $73.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,007.00 | $9.74 – $251.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,007.00 | $12.99 – $177.09 |