In situ hybridization per specimen each additional single probe stain at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$419.00
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.
$419.00
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.
$25.14 with Superior Health Plan vs $996.95 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 | STAR | $25.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $25.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $25.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $25.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $25.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $27.78 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $54.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $54.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $54.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $54.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $58.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $58.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $69.55 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $70.39 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $73.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | EPO | $73.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $81.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $82.96 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $99.30 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $99.30 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $100.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $106.84 | ↓ -75% |
| United | SmallGroup | $109.56 | ↓ -74% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $109.56 | ↓ -74% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $109.56 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $113.13 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $114.39 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $125.70 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $146.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $146.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $167.60 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $180.17 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $188.55 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $188.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $188.55 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $198.75 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS | BAV | $219.41 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $223.33 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $230.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $230.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $251.40 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $251.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $251.40 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $251.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $272.35 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | HMO | $274.51 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $294.19 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS | PPO | $313.86 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $314.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $335.20 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $343.58 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $356.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $356.15 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $356.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $377.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $399.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Cigna | CSN | $429.06 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $464.73 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $530.62 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $530.62 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $530.62 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | PPO | $552.92 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $563.73 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $563.73 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $563.73 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $662.24 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $662.24 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $662.24 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $716.05 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $716.05 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $716.05 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | PPO | $996.95 | ↑ +138% |
| Humana | HMO | $996.95 | ↑ +138% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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In situ hybridization per specimen each additional single probe stain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $623.47 | $109.56 – $996.95 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $195.65 | $118.07 – $559.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $195.65 | $143.65 – $559.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $156.60 | $109.56 – $996.95 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $361.60 | $35.00 – $512.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $164.98 | $33.96 – $247.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $164.98 | $33.00 – $508.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $361.60 | $35.00 – $512.26 |