Piflu f-18, dia 1 millicurie at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$2,130.00
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.
$2,130.00
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.
$127.80 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,957.36 with Cigna — 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 | CHPFC | $127.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $127.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $127.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $127.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $127.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $276.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $276.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $276.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $276.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $298.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $298.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $353.58 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $357.84 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $415.35 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $504.81 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $504.81 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $511.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $543.15 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $564.45 | ↓ -74% |
| United | SmallGroup | $571.71 | ↓ -73% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $571.71 | ↓ -73% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $571.71 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $581.49 | ↓ -73% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | PPO | $679.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $679.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $683.73 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $683.73 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $683.73 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $728.46 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $728.46 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $728.46 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $745.50 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $745.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $852.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $852.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $854.13 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $854.13 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $854.13 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $915.90 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $922.29 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $922.29 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $922.29 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $958.50 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $958.50 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $958.50 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $997.76 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,099.57 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,135.29 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,171.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,171.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $1,278.00 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,278.00 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,278.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,278.00 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,374.46 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,374.46 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,374.46 | ↓ -35% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,384.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,518.21 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,597.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,643.68 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,704.00 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,746.60 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,810.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,810.50 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,810.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,917.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,957.36 | ↓ -8% |
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Piflu f-18, dia 1 millicurie at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $8,175.50 | $100.00 – $23,358.57 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $8,175.50 | $100.00 – $23,358.57 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $571.71 – $1,518.21 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $571.71 – $1,518.21 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $8,175.50 | $100.00 – $23,358.57 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $8,175.50 | $100.00 – $23,358.57 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $8,175.50 | $100.00 – $23,358.57 |
| Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $419.04 | $580.35 – $580.35 |