Ultrasound Guidance for a Needle Procedure at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$3,208.00
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.
$3,208.00
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.
$44.40 with BCBS vs $2,887.20 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 | $44.40 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BAV | $47.94 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | HMO | $85.78 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $89.06 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | PPO | $92.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $192.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $192.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $192.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $192.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $192.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $212.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $226.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $226.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $226.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $241.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $241.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $241.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $283.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $283.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $283.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $306.53 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $306.53 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $306.53 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $417.04 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $417.04 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $417.04 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $417.04 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $449.12 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $449.12 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $538.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $561.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $561.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $635.18 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $769.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $818.04 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $866.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $875.78 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $962.40 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,062.81 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,062.81 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,122.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,122.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,283.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,283.20 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,379.44 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,443.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,443.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,443.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,661.74 | ↓ -48% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,764.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,764.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,924.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $1,924.80 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,924.80 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,924.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,085.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $2,406.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $2,566.40 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $2,630.56 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $2,726.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $2,726.80 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $2,726.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $2,887.20 | ↓ -10% |
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Ultrasound Guidance for a Needle Procedure at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,246.35 | $30.28 – $3,561.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,246.35 | $35.57 – $3,561.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $2,232.50 | $99.91 – $111.74 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $1,032.00 | $99.91 – $117.98 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $2,232.50 | $99.91 – $111.74 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $909.17 | $50.46 – $1,288.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $799.40 | $84.77 – $1,199.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $906.04 | $84.77 – $1,132.55 |