Brain image w/flow < 4 views at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$2,612.80
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.
$2,612.80
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.
$156.77 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,934.08 with Aetna — 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 | $156.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $156.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $156.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $156.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $156.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $202.81 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $202.81 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $212.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $212.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $212.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $212.18 | ↓ -92% |
| United | MGMCD | $216.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $223.09 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $223.09 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $223.09 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $223.09 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $229.15 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | MCD | $253.51 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $350.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $433.72 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $438.95 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $444.44 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $666.26 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | HMO | $677.62 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $703.53 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $713.29 | ↓ -73% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $727.45 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | PPO | $833.74 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $833.74 | ↓ -68% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -68% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $914.48 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,045.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,045.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,076.51 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,175.76 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,392.62 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,430.79 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,430.79 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,430.79 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,522.02 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,522.02 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,522.02 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,789.63 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,789.63 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,789.63 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,934.08 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,934.08 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,934.08 | ↓ -26% |
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Brain image w/flow < 4 views at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $336.35 | $96.10 – $961.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,063.48 | $196.80 – $1,329.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,694.19 | $541.75 – $4,041.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,905.29 | $196.80 – $2,381.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,063.48 | $196.80 – $1,329.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,694.19 | $210.58 – $4,041.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,694.19 | $196.80 – $4,041.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,905.29 | $196.80 – $2,857.93 |