Vancomycin 750 mg intravenous solution at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$121.52
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.
$121.52
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.
$0.10 with TriWest Health Alliance vs $109.37 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 |
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| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $0.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $0.10 | ↓ -100% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $0.17 | ↓ -100% |
| United | SmallGroup | $0.17 | ↓ -100% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $0.17 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | BAV | $0.28 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | CSN | $0.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $0.31 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | HMO | $0.35 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | PPO | $0.35 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $0.35 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | PPO | $0.37 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $7.29 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $7.29 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $7.29 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $7.29 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $7.29 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $8.06 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $15.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $15.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $15.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $15.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $17.01 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $17.01 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $20.17 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $20.42 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $21.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | EPO | $21.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $24.06 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $28.80 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $28.80 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $29.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $32.81 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $36.46 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $38.78 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $38.78 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $42.53 | ↓ -65% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $52.25 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $54.68 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $64.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $66.84 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $66.84 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $72.91 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $72.91 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $72.91 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $72.91 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $78.99 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $91.14 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $97.22 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $99.65 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $103.29 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $103.29 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $103.29 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $109.37 | ↓ -10% |
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Vancomycin 750 mg intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $62.75 | $0.17 – $0.29 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $32.19 | $20.23 – $91.95 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $32.19 | $20.23 – $91.95 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.17 – $0.29 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $89.83 | $0.11 – $86.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $89.83 | $0.11 – $91.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $89.83 | $0.11 – $75.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $89.83 | $0.11 – $86.05 |