Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, with and without contrast) at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$24,449.13
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.
$24,449.13
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.
$340.15 with Texas Childrens Health Plans vs $13,031.39 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $340.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $340.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $343.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $343.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $343.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $343.83 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $350.71 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $371.34 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $374.17 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $374.17 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $374.17 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $374.17 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $425.19 | ↓ -98% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $699.43 | ↓ -97% |
| United | SmallGroup | $828.27 | ↓ -97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $828.27 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $828.61 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $946.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,210.00 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,439.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1,466.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1,466.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1,466.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1,466.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1,466.95 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,569.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,605.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,605.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,605.00 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,699.23 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,706.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,706.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,706.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,007.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,007.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,007.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,127.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,168.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,168.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,168.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,304.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,739.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $4,058.56 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4,107.45 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | PPO | $7,204.52 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | HMO | $7,204.52 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $8,557.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $9,779.65 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $11,002.11 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $13,031.39 | ↓ -47% |
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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, with and without contrast) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $2,251.55 | $340.15 – $6,433.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,061.80 | $332.94 – $3,827.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,857.68 | $494.01 – $4,286.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,183.04 | $332.94 – $3,978.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,061.80 | $332.94 – $3,827.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,857.68 | $332.94 – $4,286.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,857.68 | $340.15 – $4,286.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,183.04 | $332.94 – $4,774.56 |