Whole blood or red blood cells frozen/deglycerolized/washed leukocytes reduced each unit at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$2,277.00
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.
$2,277.00
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.
$68.00 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $2,761.29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $68.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $68.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $68.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $68.00 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $69.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $73.44 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $136.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $136.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $136.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $136.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $136.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $318.78 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $318.78 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $337.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $364.32 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $371.15 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $377.98 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $382.54 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $409.86 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $432.63 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $444.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | HMO | $512.33 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $523.71 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $532.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $539.65 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $539.65 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $546.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $580.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $621.62 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $663.09 | ↓ -71% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $796.95 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $796.95 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $881.82 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $881.82 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $881.82 | ↓ -61% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $910.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $910.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $936.85 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $936.85 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $936.85 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $979.11 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,024.65 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,024.65 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,024.65 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,100.56 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,100.56 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,100.56 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,189.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,189.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,189.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,213.64 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,252.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,252.35 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,366.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,366.20 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,366.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $1,366.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,480.05 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,707.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,821.60 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,867.14 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,935.45 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,935.45 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,935.45 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $2,049.30 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,761.29 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,761.29 | ↑ +21% |
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Whole blood or red blood cells frozen/deglycerolized/washed leukocytes reduced each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $68.00 – $2,761.29 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $68.00 – $2,761.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $714.99 | $147.17 – $1,072.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $750.74 | $150.15 – $938.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $714.99 | $229.51 – $1,072.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $714.99 | $369.41 – $1,072.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $750.74 | $247.71 – $1,126.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $714.99 | $143.00 – $893.74 |