Transcath biopsy at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$11,889.00
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.
$11,889.00
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.
$300.00 with Texas Athletic Network vs $11,398.55 with BCBS — 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 Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $1,664.46 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $1,900.37 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,973.57 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,997.35 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $2,036.11 | ↓ -83% |
| United | MGMCD | $2,080.79 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $2,133.07 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $2,133.07 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $2,133.07 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $2,133.07 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,156.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $2,171.85 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $2,171.85 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $2,171.85 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $2,171.85 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | MCD | $2,423.94 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,428.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $2,447.99 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,631.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $2,817.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $2,817.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $2,853.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,864.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,864.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,044.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,044.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $3,108.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,128.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $3,303.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,582.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,582.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,870.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,870.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,886.00 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,161.15 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $4,197.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $4,505.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,755.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $4,988.00 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $5,112.27 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $5,350.05 | ↓ -55% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $5,617.79 | ↓ -53% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $6,077.00 | ↓ -49% |
| United | SmallGroup | $6,300.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $6,336.84 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $6,538.95 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $6,538.95 | ↓ -45% |
| Oscar | HIX | $7,014.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Triumph | COMM | $7,133.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $7,133.40 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $7,133.40 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $7,133.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $7,727.85 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $7,997.37 | ↓ -33% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $8,778.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $8,916.75 | ↓ -25% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $8,987.00 | ↓ -24% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9,000.00 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS | BAV | $9,008.53 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $9,511.20 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS | HMO | $9,514.11 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $9,748.98 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $10,105.65 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $10,105.65 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $10,105.65 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $10,479.31 | ↓ -12% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $10,700.10 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | PPO | $11,398.55 | ↓ -4% |
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Transcath biopsy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,479.05 | $1,912.41 – $7,083.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,479.05 | $1,912.41 – $7,083.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $2,080.79 – $9,422.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,939.15 – $7,997.37 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,285.93 | $1,939.15 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,426.92 | $71.00 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,285.93 | $71.00 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,285.93 | $1,939.15 – $13,613.39 |