Inj, sezaby, 1 mg at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$15.00
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.
$15.00
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.
$0.90 with Superior Health Plan vs $13.50 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 | CHIP | $0.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $0.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $0.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $0.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $0.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1.95 | ↓ -87% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1.95 | ↓ -87% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1.95 | ↓ -87% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $2.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $2.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $2.49 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2.52 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $2.61 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $2.87 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | CSN | $3.29 | ↓ -78% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $3.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $3.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $3.56 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | HMO | $3.59 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $3.59 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | PPO | $3.59 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $3.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | PPO | $4.24 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | HMO | $4.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $4.79 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $5.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $6.45 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $6.75 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $8.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $8.25 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $8.25 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $9.00 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $9.00 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $9.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $9.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $9.75 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $11.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $12.00 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $12.30 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $12.75 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $12.75 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $12.75 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $13.50 | ↓ -10% |
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Inj, sezaby, 1 mg at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1.95 – $3.29 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1.95 – $3.29 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $5.12 – $5.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $1.95 – $3.29 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $4.97 – $6.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $1.95 – $3.29 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $1.95 – $3.29 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $1.95 – $3.29 |