X-ray small intestine follow-through study at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$3,521.00
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.
$3,521.00
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.
$80.88 with Texas Health Network vs $3,168.90 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 | $80.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $82.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $82.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $82.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $82.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $83.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $83.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $83.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $83.86 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $84.36 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $85.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $90.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $90.78 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $90.78 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $90.78 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $90.78 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $91.07 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $103.16 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | HMO | $162.96 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $169.19 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | PPO | $174.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $211.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $211.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $211.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $211.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $211.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $233.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $308.48 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $409.99 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $409.99 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $409.99 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $436.14 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $436.14 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $436.14 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $512.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $512.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $512.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | CSN | $521.11 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $554.21 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $554.21 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $554.21 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $563.36 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $584.49 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $591.53 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $616.17 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $616.17 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $668.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $697.16 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $845.04 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $897.86 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $950.67 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $961.23 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $1,056.30 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,123.55 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,123.55 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,232.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,232.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,408.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,408.40 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,514.03 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,584.45 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,584.45 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,584.45 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,876.69 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,936.55 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,936.55 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,112.60 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,112.60 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,112.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Triumph | COMM | $2,112.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,288.65 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $2,640.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $2,816.80 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $2,887.22 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $2,992.85 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $2,992.85 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $2,992.85 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $3,168.90 | ↓ -10% |
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X-ray small intestine follow-through study at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $453.25 | $57.52 – $1,295.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $453.25 | $67.58 – $1,295.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $83.86 – $308.48 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $82.53 – $308.48 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,234.59 | $82.53 – $1,749.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,224.58 | $89.56 – $1,836.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,235.93 | $82.53 – $1,544.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,234.59 | $82.53 – $1,749.00 |