Surgical pathology level 2 gross & microscopic examination at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$827.00
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.
$827.00
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.
$24.67 with United vs $744.30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $24.67 | ↓ -97% |
| United | SmallGroup | $24.67 | ↓ -97% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $24.67 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $46.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $49.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $49.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $49.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $49.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $49.62 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BAV | $51.27 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $64.14 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $68.74 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | PPO | $73.34 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $95.05 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $107.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $107.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $107.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $107.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $108.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $115.78 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $115.78 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $117.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $126.41 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $126.41 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $126.41 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $134.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $134.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $134.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $137.28 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $138.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $139.78 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $157.76 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $157.76 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $157.76 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $161.26 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $170.58 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $170.58 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $170.58 | ↓ -79% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $196.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $196.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $198.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $210.88 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $225.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $244.21 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | HMO | $244.21 | ↓ -70% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $289.45 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $289.45 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $330.80 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $355.61 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $372.15 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $372.15 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $372.15 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $440.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $454.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $454.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $496.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $496.20 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $496.20 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $496.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $537.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $620.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $661.60 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $678.14 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $702.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $702.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $702.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $744.30 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Surgical pathology level 2 gross & microscopic examination at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $273.70 | $27.59 – $782.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $273.70 | $33.57 – $782.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $24.67 – $244.21 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $24.67 – $244.21 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $176.63 | $35.00 – $220.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $187.56 | $36.00 – $281.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $182.09 | $35.64 – $227.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $176.63 | $35.00 – $220.78 |