Non-card vasc flow imaging at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$2,009.00
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.
$2,009.00
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.
$120.54 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,873.27 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 | $120.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $120.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $120.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $120.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $120.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $192.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $196.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $196.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $196.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $196.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $201.48 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $201.48 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $201.48 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $201.48 | ↓ -90% |
| United | MGMCD | $205.51 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $216.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $216.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $216.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $216.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $217.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | MCD | $246.00 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $296.21 | ↓ -85% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | BAV | $319.77 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $333.49 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $337.51 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $482.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $512.29 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $548.46 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | HMO | $572.22 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $594.10 | ↓ -70% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | PPO | $614.30 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | HMO | $641.07 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $641.07 | ↓ -68% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $703.15 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $703.15 | ↓ -65% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -64% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $803.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $803.60 | ↓ -60% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -58% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $863.87 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $904.05 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $904.05 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $904.05 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,042.67 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,070.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,104.95 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,104.95 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,205.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $1,205.40 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,205.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,205.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,305.85 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,385.81 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,385.81 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,385.81 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,474.17 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,474.17 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,474.17 | ↓ -27% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,506.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,607.20 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,647.38 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,707.65 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,707.65 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,707.65 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,733.37 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,733.37 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,733.37 | ↓ -14% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,808.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,873.27 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,873.27 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,873.27 | ↓ -7% |
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Non-card vasc flow imaging at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $201.48 – $1,042.67 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $196.80 – $1,042.67 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $367.06 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $608.56 | $125.26 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $608.56 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $367.06 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $608.56 | $183.76 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $608.56 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |