Test pathogen(s) for platelets reference at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$800.00
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.
$800.00
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.
$33.84 with United vs $720.00 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 | SmallGroup | $33.84 | ↓ -96% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $33.84 | ↓ -96% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $33.84 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $48.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $48.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $48.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $48.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $48.00 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $71.71 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | BAV | $79.17 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | HMO | $99.05 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $104.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $104.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $104.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $104.00 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $106.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $112.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $112.00 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | PPO | $113.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $132.80 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $134.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $156.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | CSN | $161.77 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $175.22 | ↓ -78% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $189.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $189.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $192.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $204.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | PPO | $208.47 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $218.40 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $242.83 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $255.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $255.28 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $280.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $280.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $320.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $320.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $322.94 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $322.94 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $322.94 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $343.09 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $343.09 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $343.09 | ↓ -57% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $344.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $360.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $360.00 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $360.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $403.04 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $403.04 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $403.04 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $426.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $435.79 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $435.79 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $435.79 | ↓ -46% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $440.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $440.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $480.00 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $480.00 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $480.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $480.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $520.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $600.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $640.00 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $656.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $680.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $680.00 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $680.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $720.00 | ↓ -10% |
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Test pathogen(s) for platelets reference at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $225.84 | $33.84 – $242.83 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $75.95 | $38.25 – $217.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $75.95 | $38.25 – $217.00 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $135.00 | $59.26 – $237.04 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | not published | $59.26 – $115.56 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | not published | $59.26 – $237.04 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $29.90 | $8.47 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $56.35 | $11.60 – $151.53 |