X-ray exam entire spi 4/5 vw at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$6,776.00
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.
$6,776.00
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.
$77.94 with Texas Health Network vs $6,098.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $77.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $79.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $79.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $79.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $79.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $79.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $79.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $79.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $79.53 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $80.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $85.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $87.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $87.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $87.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $87.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $99.41 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $104.02 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BAV | $112.29 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | HMO | $200.94 | ↓ -97% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $208.62 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | PPO | $215.72 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | CSN | $225.48 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $244.02 | ↓ -96% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -96% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | PPO | $290.08 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $366.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $406.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $406.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $406.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $406.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $406.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $486.78 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $486.78 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $486.78 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $517.82 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $517.82 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $517.82 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $608.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $608.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $608.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $658.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $658.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $658.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | PPO | $993.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | HMO | $993.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,124.82 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,138.37 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,626.24 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,727.88 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,849.85 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $2,371.60 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,371.60 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,710.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,710.40 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2,913.68 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $3,049.20 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,049.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3,049.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,611.61 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $3,726.80 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $3,726.80 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4,065.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $4,065.60 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,065.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4,065.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $4,404.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $5,082.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $5,420.80 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $5,556.32 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $5,759.60 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $5,759.60 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $5,759.60 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $6,098.40 | ↓ -10% |
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X-ray exam entire spi 4/5 vw at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,237.90 | $70.92 – $6,394.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,237.90 | $79.19 – $6,394.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $3,469.98 | $79.19 – $366.25 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $1,226.00 | $105.02 – $204.79 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $577.50 | $105.02 – $420.09 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $1,226.00 | $105.02 – $420.09 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $79.19 – $366.25 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $539.81 | $79.53 – $674.76 |