Limited autopsy at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
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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.
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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.
$7.79 with Cigna vs $1,204.83 with BCBS — 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 |
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| Cigna | CSN | $7.79 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $8.44 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $10.04 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $93.51 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $93.51 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $93.51 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $354.80 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $471.84 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $471.84 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $471.84 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $501.28 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $501.28 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $501.28 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $588.88 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $588.88 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $588.88 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $636.73 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $636.73 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $636.73 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $762.93 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $842.25 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $1,004.75 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $1,004.75 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,053.76 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,129.29 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,204.83 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Limited autopsy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $7.79 – $1,004.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $7.79 – $1,004.75 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $1,454.11 – $1,454.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $7.79 – $1,004.75 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $204.23 – $1,646.73 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $7.79 – $1,004.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $7.79 – $1,004.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $7.79 – $1,004.75 |