Pulmonary vent imaging at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$11,445.00
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.
$11,445.00
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.
$172.90 with Texas Health Network vs $10,300.50 with Affiliated PPO — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $172.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $176.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $176.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $176.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $176.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $183.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $183.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $183.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $183.78 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $187.46 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $194.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $194.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $194.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $194.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $198.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $220.54 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $296.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $320.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | HMO | $573.44 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $595.37 | ↓ -95% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | PPO | $615.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $686.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $686.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $686.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $686.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $686.70 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $921.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,224.34 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,224.34 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,224.34 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,302.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,302.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,302.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,531.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,531.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,531.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,655.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,655.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,655.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,899.87 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,922.76 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $2,746.80 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,918.47 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,979.51 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,979.51 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $3,124.49 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $4,005.75 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,005.75 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,578.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $4,578.00 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $4,921.35 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $5,150.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $5,150.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $5,150.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $6,100.19 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $6,294.75 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $6,294.75 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $6,867.00 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $6,867.00 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $6,867.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $6,867.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $7,439.25 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $8,583.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $9,156.00 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $9,384.90 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $9,728.25 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $9,728.25 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $9,728.25 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $10,300.50 | ↓ -10% |
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Pulmonary vent imaging at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $8,596.76 | $183.78 – $921.18 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $412.65 | $129.69 – $1,179.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $412.65 | $94.32 – $1,179.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $6,404.63 | $176.43 – $921.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $828.73 | $169.08 – $1,035.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $865.48 | $178.15 – $1,298.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $962.14 | $169.08 – $1,202.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $828.73 | $169.08 – $1,035.91 |