Special radiation treatment at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$19,583.00
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.
$19,583.00
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.
$47.49 with BCBS vs $17,624.70 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 | $47.49 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | BAV | $52.42 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | PPO | $77.85 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $77.85 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | HMO | $77.85 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $151.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $201.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $201.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $201.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $214.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $214.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $214.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $252.58 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $252.58 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $252.58 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $272.97 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $272.97 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $272.97 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | HMO | $357.42 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | PPO | $357.42 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $2,545.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $2,545.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $2,545.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $2,545.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $2,741.62 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $2,741.62 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $3,250.78 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $3,289.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,818.68 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $4,641.17 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $4,641.17 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $4,699.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $4,993.66 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $5,346.16 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $6,854.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $6,854.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $7,833.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $7,833.20 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $8,420.69 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $8,812.35 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $8,812.35 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $8,812.35 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $10,437.74 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $10,770.65 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $10,770.65 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $11,749.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $11,749.80 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $11,749.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $11,749.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $12,728.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $14,687.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $15,666.40 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $16,058.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $16,645.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $16,645.55 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $16,645.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $17,624.70 | ↓ -10% |
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Special radiation treatment at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,141.95 | $31.14 – $8,977.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,141.95 | $37.89 – $8,977.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $4,819.00 | $119.63 – $1,082.37 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $3,329.50 | $119.63 – $2,220.24 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $4,819.00 | $119.63 – $2,220.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $47.49 – $357.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $47.49 – $357.42 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,787.51 | $40.48 – $2,234.39 |