Blood split unit at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$452.22
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.
$452.22
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.
$27.13 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,000.10 with Humana — 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 | STAR | $27.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $27.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $27.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $27.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $27.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $61.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $61.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $61.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $61.20 | ↓ -86% |
| United | MGMCD | $62.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $66.10 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | CSN | $66.93 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $72.36 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $73.71 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $75.07 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $75.97 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $81.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $85.92 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $88.18 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $101.75 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $104.01 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $105.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $107.18 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $107.18 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $115.32 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $123.46 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $158.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $180.89 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $180.89 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $203.50 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $238.73 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $241.03 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $317.49 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $317.49 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $317.49 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $337.30 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $337.30 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $337.30 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $396.24 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $396.24 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $396.24 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $428.43 | ↓ -5% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $428.43 | ↓ -5% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $428.43 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,000.10 | ↑ +121% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,000.10 | ↑ +121% |
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Blood split unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $302.75 | $61.20 – $865.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $563.50 | $61.20 – $1,000.10 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $302.75 | $61.20 – $865.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $33.43 | $24.34 – $191.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $302.75 | $61.20 – $865.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $33.43 | $47.00 – $191.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $302.75 | $61.20 – $865.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $33.43 | $47.00 – $212.01 |