Albumin serum plasma or whole blood at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST

621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$1,079.10

Cash price

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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.

$1,079.10

Gross charge

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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.

$4.16 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $575.16 with Coventry National First Health — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Community Health Choice MCD CHIPPerinatal $4.16 ↓ -100%
Texas Childrens Health Plans STAR $4.16 ↓ -100%
Community Health Choice MCD STAR $4.16 ↓ -100%
Community Health Choice MCD STAR+PLUS $4.16 ↓ -100%
Community Health Choice MCD CHIP $4.16 ↓ -100%
Texas Childrens Health Plans STARKIDS $4.16 ↓ -100%
United MGMCD $4.24 ↓ -100%
Aetna Better Health MGMCD $4.49 ↓ -100%
Molina Healthcare STARPLUS $4.58 ↓ -100%
Molina Healthcare STARKIDS $4.58 ↓ -100%
Molina Healthcare CHIP $4.58 ↓ -100%
Molina Healthcare STAR $4.58 ↓ -100%
Oscar MGMCR $4.85 ↓ -100%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance VeteransPCCC $4.85 ↓ -100%
Humana MedicareAdvantageHMO $4.95 ↓ -100%
Devoted Health MGMCR $4.95 ↓ -100%
United AllPayerAppendix $4.95 ↓ -100%
Humana MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS $4.95 ↓ -100%
BCBS MedicareAdvantageHMO $4.95 ↓ -100%
BCBS MCRPPO $4.95 ↓ -100%
Cigna HealthSpring MMP $4.95 ↓ -100%
Cigna HealthSpring PFFS $4.95 ↓ -100%
Cigna HealthSpring MCRSNP $4.95 ↓ -100%
Cigna HealthSpring MCRPPO $4.95 ↓ -100%
Cigna HealthSpring MCRHMO $4.95 ↓ -100%
United SmallGroup $4.95 ↓ -100%
United NarrowNetworkIndivExchange $4.95 ↓ -100%
WellMed MGMCR $4.97 ↓ -100%
Van Lang IPA MCR $5.00 ↓ -100%
United MCR $5.05 ↓ -100%
WellCare MCRHMO $5.10 ↓ -100%
WellCare SNP $5.10 ↓ -100%
WellCare PPO $5.10 ↓ -100%
WellCare POS $5.10 ↓ -100%
WellCare PFFS $5.10 ↓ -100%
Integranet Amerigroup IPA MCR $5.10 ↓ -100%
Superior Health Plan MCRPPO $5.20 ↓ -100%
Superior Health Plan MCRPOS $5.20 ↓ -100%
Superior Health Plan MCRSNP $5.20 ↓ -100%
Superior Health Plan PFFS $5.20 ↓ -100%
Humana MCD $5.20 ↓ -100%
ProCare Advantage MGMCR $5.20 ↓ -100%
Superior Health Plan DualEligible $5.20 ↓ -100%
Superior Health Plan MCRHMO $5.20 ↓ -100%
Shared Health MGMCR $5.20 ↓ -100%
American Health Plan MGMCR $5.20 ↓ -100%
Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas PPO $5.25 ↓ -100%
Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas SNP $5.25 ↓ -100%
Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas POS $5.25 ↓ -100%
Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas MCRHMO $5.25 ↓ -100%
Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas PFFS $5.25 ↓ -100%
Christus (USFHP) TRICARE $5.36 ↓ -100%
TriWest Health Alliance TRCR $5.36 ↓ -100%
Molina MGMCR $5.40 ↓ -99%
Verda Health Plan MCR $6.44 ↓ -99%
Superior ValueHMO $7.18 ↓ -99%
Community Health Choice HIX $7.18 ↓ -99%
Superior HMO $7.67 ↓ -99%
Superior EPO $7.67 ↓ -99%
BCBS MyBlueHealth $10.00 ↓ -99%
Molina Healthcare HIX $10.64 ↓ -99%
BCBS BAV $11.04 ↓ -99%
BCBS HMO $13.81 ↓ -99%
Oscar HIX $14.31 ↓ -99%
BCBS EPOSOA $14.80 ↓ -99%
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Veterans $14.85 ↓ -99%
Healthcare Highways NarrowNetwork $14.85 ↓ -99%
BCBS PPO $15.79 ↓ -99%
Aetna QHPExchange $18.12 ↓ -98%
Cigna CSN $20.91 ↓ -98%
Cigna OpenAccessPlus $22.65 ↓ -98%
Aetna NBHMO $24.10 ↓ -98%
Aetna NBPOS $24.10 ↓ -98%
Aetna NBPPO $24.10 ↓ -98%
Aetna COMMPPO $25.61 ↓ -98%
Aetna COMMHMO $25.61 ↓ -98%
Aetna COMMPOS $25.61 ↓ -98%
Cigna PPO $26.95 ↓ -98%
Aetna OONPOS $30.08 ↓ -97%
Aetna OONPPO $30.08 ↓ -97%
Aetna OONHMO $30.08 ↓ -97%
Aetna ASAPOS $32.52 ↓ -97%
Aetna ASAHMO $32.52 ↓ -97%
Aetna ASAPPO $32.52 ↓ -97%
Superior Health Plan STAR $64.75 ↓ -94%
Superior Health Plan STARKids $64.75 ↓ -94%
Superior Health Plan CHIP $64.75 ↓ -94%
Superior Health Plan CHPFC $64.75 ↓ -94%
Superior Health Plan STARPLUS $64.75 ↓ -94%
Humana HMO $66.11 ↓ -94%
Humana PPO $66.11 ↓ -94%
Texas Childrens Health Plans CHIP $179.13 ↓ -83%
United OptionsPPO $181.29 ↓ -83%
Evry Health BroadNetwork $294.59 ↓ -73%
BCBS Traditional $377.69 ↓ -65%
United GlobalAppendix $485.59 ↓ -55%
Coventry National First Health COMM $575.16 ↓ -47%
Curative Administrators COMM not published by hospital

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