Smear special stain inclusion bodies/parasites at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
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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.
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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.
$4.93 with Texas Health Network vs $428.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $4.93 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $5.03 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $5.03 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $5.03 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $5.03 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $5.03 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $5.03 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $5.03 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $5.03 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $5.13 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $5.43 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $5.53 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $5.53 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $5.53 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $5.53 | — |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $5.87 | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $5.96 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5.99 | — |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $5.99 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $5.99 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $5.99 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $5.99 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $5.99 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $5.99 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $5.99 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $5.99 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $5.99 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $5.99 | — |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $5.99 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $5.99 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $5.99 | — |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $5.99 | — |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $5.99 | — |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $5.99 | — |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $5.99 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $5.99 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $6.04 | — |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $6.05 | — |
| United | MCR | $6.11 | — |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $6.17 | — |
| WellCare | PPO | $6.17 | — |
| WellCare | SNP | $6.17 | — |
| WellCare | POS | $6.17 | — |
| WellCare | PFFS | $6.17 | — |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $6.17 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $6.29 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $6.29 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $6.29 | — |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $6.29 | — |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $6.29 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $6.29 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $6.29 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $6.29 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $6.29 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $6.29 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $6.35 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $6.35 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $6.35 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $6.35 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $6.35 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $6.48 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $6.48 | — |
| Molina | MGMCR | $6.53 | — |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $7.19 | — |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $7.79 | — |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $8.69 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $8.69 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $9.28 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $9.28 | — |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $11.86 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $12.10 | — |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $12.58 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $12.88 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $13.36 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $16.71 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $17.31 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $17.91 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $17.99 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $19.11 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $21.93 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $25.07 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $27.16 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $28.56 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $28.56 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $28.56 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $28.56 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $28.56 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $29.17 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $29.17 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $29.17 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $30.99 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $30.99 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $30.99 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $32.31 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $36.40 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $36.40 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $36.40 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $39.36 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $39.36 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $39.36 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $79.02 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $79.97 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $80.07 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $80.07 | — |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $114.24 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $129.95 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $166.60 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $166.60 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $204.68 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $214.20 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $214.20 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $214.20 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $253.71 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $261.80 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $261.80 | — |
| Triumph | COMM | $285.60 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $285.60 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $285.60 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $285.60 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $309.40 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $357.00 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $380.80 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $390.32 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $404.60 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $404.60 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $404.60 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $428.40 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $44.45 | $4.31 – $127.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $44.45 | $4.31 – $127.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $5.03 – $25.07 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $168.03 | $5.39 – $23.06 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $100.78 | $5.03 – $125.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $94.10 | $8.78 – $141.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $81.20 | $5.03 – $101.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $100.78 | $5.03 – $125.97 |