Immunology procedure at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$305.00
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.
$305.00
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.
$18.30 with Superior Health Plan vs $274.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $18.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $18.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $18.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $18.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $18.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $20.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $39.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $39.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $39.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $39.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $42.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $42.70 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $49.72 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $50.63 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $51.24 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $53.38 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | HMO | $53.38 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | BAV | $54.90 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $59.48 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $60.39 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $68.63 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $70.15 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $71.37 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $72.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $72.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $73.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $77.78 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $80.83 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $82.35 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $83.27 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $91.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $97.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $97.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $97.91 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $97.91 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $97.91 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | CSN | $99.55 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $104.31 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $104.31 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $104.31 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $106.75 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $106.75 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.82 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $122.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $122.31 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $122.31 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $122.31 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | PPO | $128.28 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $131.15 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $132.06 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $132.06 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $132.06 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $137.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $137.25 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $137.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $162.56 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $167.75 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $167.75 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $183.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $183.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $183.00 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $183.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $198.25 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $228.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $244.00 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $250.10 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $259.25 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $259.25 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $259.25 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $274.50 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Immunology procedure at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $924.47 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $796.22 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $289.39 | $10.00 – $107.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $321.98 | $12.00 – $114.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $312.60 | $12.00 – $95.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $289.39 | $10.00 – $107.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $321.98 | $12.00 – $114.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $321.98 | $8.00 – $114.31 |