Special teletx port plan at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$7,214.00
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.
$7,214.00
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.
$81.78 with BCBS vs $6,492.60 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 | $81.78 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BAV | $90.27 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | PPO | $134.07 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $134.07 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | HMO | $134.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $228.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $304.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $304.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $304.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $323.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $323.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $323.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $380.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $380.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $380.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $411.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $411.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $411.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | HMO | $788.07 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | PPO | $788.07 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $937.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $937.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $937.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $937.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $1,009.96 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $1,009.96 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,197.52 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,211.95 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,406.73 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1,709.72 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1,709.72 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,731.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,839.57 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,969.42 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,524.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $2,524.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,885.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,885.60 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $3,102.02 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,246.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3,246.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $3,246.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,845.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $3,967.70 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $3,967.70 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,328.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $4,328.40 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4,328.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4,328.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $4,689.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $5,410.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $5,771.20 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $5,915.48 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $6,131.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $6,131.90 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $6,131.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $6,492.60 | ↓ -10% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Special teletx port plan at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,542.45 | $53.63 – $4,407.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,542.45 | $65.25 – $4,407.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $81.78 – $788.07 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $81.78 – $788.07 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $530.47 | $69.72 – $915.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,346.27 | $174.29 – $2,019.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,056.31 | $174.29 – $1,320.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $530.47 | $42.90 – $915.33 |