X-ray eye detection foreign body (both sides) at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$1,831.00
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.
$1,831.00
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.
$32.09 with Texas Health Network vs $1,647.90 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 | $32.09 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $32.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $32.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $32.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $32.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $32.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $32.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $32.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $32.75 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $33.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $35.37 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $36.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $36.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $36.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $36.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $40.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $87.12 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $94.29 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $109.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $109.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $109.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $109.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $109.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | PPO | $112.08 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $140.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $141.18 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BAV | $151.64 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $153.71 | ↓ -92% |
| United | SmallGroup | $182.03 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $182.03 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $187.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $187.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $187.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $199.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $199.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $199.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $234.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $234.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $234.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $253.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $253.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $253.64 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | HMO | $271.35 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $281.73 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | PPO | $291.31 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $303.95 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $307.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | HMO | $340.77 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | PPO | $340.77 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $439.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $466.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $499.86 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $640.85 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $640.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $732.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $732.40 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $787.33 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $823.95 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $823.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $823.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $975.92 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,007.05 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,007.05 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,098.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $1,098.60 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,098.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,098.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,190.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,373.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,464.80 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,501.42 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,556.35 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,556.35 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,556.35 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,647.90 | ↓ -10% |
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X-ray eye detection foreign body (both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $32.75 – $141.18 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $32.75 – $141.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $276.00 | $32.75 – $345.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $183.98 | $37.87 – $275.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $189.70 | $32.75 – $237.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $276.00 | $32.75 – $345.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $183.98 | $35.04 – $275.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $183.98 | $32.75 – $275.97 |