Myelography via inj w/s&i lumbosacral at HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD
5324 ATASCOCITA RD, HUMBLE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1811942238
$12,196.46
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.
$12,196.46
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.
$791.43 with WellMed vs $13,513.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WellMed | MGMCR | $791.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,105.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,105.00 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,211.86 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,334.41 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,409.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,430.00 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,531.85 | ↓ -87% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,534.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,585.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,585.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,585.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,585.54 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,647.58 | ↓ -86% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,732.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,899.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,899.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,012.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,017.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,017.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $2,115.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,128.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,181.00 | ↓ -82% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,191.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,251.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,315.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,317.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,374.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,374.00 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,463.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,564.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,564.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,727.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,947.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $4,255.00 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,268.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,878.58 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $5,488.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $6,500.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $9,147.34 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $10,366.99 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | CSN | $10,490.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $11,365.00 | ↓ -7% |
| Cigna | PPO | $13,513.00 | ↑ +11% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,923.03 | $544.86 – $2,403.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,583.32 | $71.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,242.29 | $71.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,923.03 | $512.81 – $2,403.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,583.32 | $85.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,583.32 | $818.05 – $2,374.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,242.29 | $71.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,923.03 | $512.81 – $2,403.79 |