Vaccine influenza preservative free trivalent (iiv3) 0.5ml dose im at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$156.00
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.
$156.00
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.
$9.36 with Superior Health Plan vs $192.56 with Humana — 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $9.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $9.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $9.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $9.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $9.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $10.34 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $20.28 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $20.28 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $20.28 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $20.28 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $21.84 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $21.84 | ↓ -86% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $23.22 | ↓ -85% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $23.22 | ↓ -85% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $25.90 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $26.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $27.30 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $27.30 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $30.89 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $33.34 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | BAV | $36.74 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $36.97 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $36.97 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $37.44 | ↓ -76% |
| United | SmallGroup | $38.31 | ↓ -75% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $38.31 | ↓ -75% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $38.31 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $42.12 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $45.93 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | HMO | $45.93 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $45.93 | ↓ -71% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $46.80 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | CSN | $53.48 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $54.60 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $57.90 | ↓ -63% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $67.08 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | PPO | $68.95 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $70.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $83.15 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $85.80 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $85.80 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $93.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $93.60 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $93.60 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $93.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $101.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $117.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $124.80 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $127.92 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $132.60 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $132.60 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $132.60 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $140.40 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | PPO | $192.56 | ↑ +23% |
| Humana | HMO | $192.56 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | not published by hospital | — |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $40.93 | $9.71 – $84.21 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $40.93 | $5.46 – $84.21 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $22.35 – $192.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $22.35 – $192.56 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $170.77 | $65.49 – $65.49 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $27.00 | $7.65 – $38.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $27.00 | $5.56 – $40.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $27.00 | $5.40 – $33.75 |