Ventilator Management (first day) at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$4,604.00
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.
$4,604.00
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.
$276.24 with Superior Health Plan vs $4,143.60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $276.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $276.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $276.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $276.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $276.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $598.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $598.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $598.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $598.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $644.56 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $644.56 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $773.47 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $897.78 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,087.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,104.96 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,198.49 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,431.84 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,431.84 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,431.84 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,500.43 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,523.92 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,523.92 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,523.92 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,525.31 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,525.31 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,611.40 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,686.24 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,786.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,786.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,786.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,841.60 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,867.41 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,929.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,929.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,929.08 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,979.72 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $2,071.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $2,071.80 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,071.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,384.87 | ↓ -48% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,532.20 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,532.20 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,762.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $2,762.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,762.40 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,762.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,992.60 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $3,453.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $3,683.20 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,775.28 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $3,913.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $3,913.40 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $3,913.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $4,143.60 | ↓ -10% |
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Ventilator Management (first day) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,172.45 | $100.00 – $6,207.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,172.45 | $100.00 – $6,207.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $1,962.17 | $1,087.00 – $1,087.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $3,604.50 | $620.60 – $1,210.18 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $3,403.50 | $620.60 – $2,482.42 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $3,604.50 | $620.60 – $2,482.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $2,003.26 | $1,087.00 – $1,087.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $4,594.20 | $1,788.44 – $1,788.44 |