Radiation therapy dose plan at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$3,026.00
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.
$3,026.00
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.
$63.32 with BCBS vs $2,723.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $63.32 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BAV | $69.89 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | PPO | $103.80 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $103.80 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | HMO | $103.80 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $171.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $228.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $228.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $228.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $242.64 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $242.64 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $242.64 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $285.30 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $285.30 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $285.30 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $308.33 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $308.33 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $308.33 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $393.38 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $393.38 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $393.38 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $393.38 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $423.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $423.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $502.32 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $508.37 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $590.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | PPO | $614.19 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | HMO | $614.19 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $717.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $717.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $726.24 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $771.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $826.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,059.10 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,059.10 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,210.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,210.40 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,301.18 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,361.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,361.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,361.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,612.86 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,664.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,664.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,815.60 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,815.60 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,815.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $1,815.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,966.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $2,269.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $2,420.80 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $2,481.32 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $2,572.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $2,572.10 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $2,572.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $2,723.40 | ↓ -10% |
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Radiation therapy dose plan at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $348.60 | $63.32 – $614.19 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,705.90 | $41.52 – $4,874.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,705.90 | $50.52 – $4,874.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $63.32 – $614.19 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $473.01 | $53.98 – $591.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $619.25 | $127.46 – $928.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $509.00 | $101.80 – $636.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $473.01 | $33.22 – $591.26 |