Compatibility test incubate at HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD
5324 ATASCOCITA RD, HUMBLE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1811942238
$1,040.20
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.
$1,040.20
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.
$62.41 with Superior Health Plan vs $936.18 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 | STARPLUS | $62.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $62.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $62.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $62.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $62.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $120.02 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | CSN | $126.87 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $135.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $135.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $135.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $135.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $137.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $145.63 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $145.63 | ↓ -86% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $149.16 | ↓ -86% |
| United | SmallGroup | $149.16 | ↓ -86% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $149.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $159.61 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $159.61 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $159.61 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | PPO | $163.49 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $169.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $169.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $169.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $172.67 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $174.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $199.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $199.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $199.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $202.84 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $215.38 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $215.38 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $215.38 | ↓ -79% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $246.53 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $246.53 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $265.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $283.97 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $289.87 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | BAV | $320.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | PPO | $339.75 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $339.75 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $364.07 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $364.07 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $364.07 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | HMO | $400.37 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $416.08 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $429.07 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $447.29 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | PPO | $457.76 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $468.09 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $468.09 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $468.09 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $554.43 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $572.11 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $572.11 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $624.12 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $624.12 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $624.12 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $676.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $780.15 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $852.96 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $884.17 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $884.17 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $884.17 | ↓ -15% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $884.17 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $936.18 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Compatibility test incubate at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $647.07 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $957.45 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $554.35 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $869.82 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $48.83 | $76.00 – $193.77 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $133.70 | $36.95 – $382.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $100.45 | $11.50 – $516.60 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $133.70 | $76.00 – $382.00 |