Pretreat rbc w enzyme reference at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$206.00
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.
$206.00
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.
$12.36 with Superior Health Plan vs $904.08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $12.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $12.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $12.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $12.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $12.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $26.78 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $26.78 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $26.78 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $26.78 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $28.84 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $28.84 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $34.20 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $34.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $40.17 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $48.82 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $48.82 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $49.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $52.53 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $56.24 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $72.10 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $72.10 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $82.40 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $88.58 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $88.69 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $92.70 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $92.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $92.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | CSN | $93.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $101.16 | ↓ -51% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $109.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $113.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $113.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $117.94 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $117.94 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $117.94 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | PPO | $120.36 | ↓ -42% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $123.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $123.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $123.60 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $123.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $125.30 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $125.30 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $125.30 | ↓ -39% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $133.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $147.20 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $147.20 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $147.20 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $154.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $159.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $159.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $159.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $164.80 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $168.92 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $175.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $175.10 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $175.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $185.40 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | PPO | $252.11 | ↑ +22% |
| Humana | HMO | $252.11 | ↑ +22% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | ↑ +41% |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | ↑ +41% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | ↑ +178% |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | ↑ +207% |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | ↑ +284% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | ↑ +311% |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | ↑ +339% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $422.02 | $88.69 – $572.49 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $350.70 | $36.95 – $1,002.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $350.70 | $56.17 – $1,002.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $137.70 | $88.69 – $572.49 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $214.33 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $198.45 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $94.50 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $214.33 | $10.00 – $423.12 |