Pressure velocity wire add ves at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$1,448.00
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.
$1,448.00
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.
$86.88 with Superior Health Plan vs $5,000.00 with Averde Health — 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 | STARKids | $86.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $86.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $86.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $86.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $86.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $96.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $188.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $188.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $188.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $188.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $202.72 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $202.72 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $236.02 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $240.37 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $243.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $253.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $253.40 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $260.64 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $286.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | HMO | $325.80 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $333.04 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $338.83 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $343.18 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $343.18 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $347.52 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $369.24 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $390.96 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $395.30 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $434.40 | ↓ -70% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $506.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $579.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $622.64 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $651.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $651.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $771.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $796.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $796.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $868.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $868.80 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $868.80 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $868.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $941.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,078.51 | ↓ -26% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,078.51 | ↓ -26% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,086.00 | ↓ -25% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,158.40 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,187.36 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,230.80 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,230.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,230.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,303.20 | ↓ -10% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↑ +10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↑ +18% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,358.00 | ↑ +63% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $5,000.00 | ↑ +245% |
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Pressure velocity wire add ves at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $7,204.38 | $1,078.51 – $1,078.51 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $568.05 | $0.02 – $1,623.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $568.05 | $100.00 – $1,623.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,078.51 – $1,078.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,208.05 | $625.61 – $3,128.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,050.51 | $422.06 – $3,075.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,127.73 | $425.55 – $2,659.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,208.05 | $588.81 – $3,128.07 |