Cholecystostomy complete w/supervision & interpretation at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$20,300.51
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.
$20,300.51
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.
$948.00 with Superior Health Plan vs $13,835.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $2,639.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $2,639.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $2,639.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $2,639.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $3,369.88 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $3,410.49 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -77% |
| United | SmallGroup | $4,760.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $4,811.22 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $4,811.22 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $4,988.00 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $5,534.63 | ↓ -73% |
| Oscar | HIX | $5,571.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $5,849.00 | ↓ -71% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5,951.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $6,077.00 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | BAV | $6,094.31 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | HMO | $6,436.33 | ↓ -68% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $6,800.00 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $6,996.02 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $7,105.18 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | PPO | $7,524.60 | ↓ -63% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $8,120.20 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $9,135.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | CSN | $10,740.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $10,820.17 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $11,636.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | PPO | $13,835.00 | ↓ -32% |
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Cholecystostomy complete w/supervision & interpretation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $2,552.20 | $1,968.84 – $7,292.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,562.92 | $1,009.49 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,997.29 | $71.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,126.71 | $71.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,562.92 | $950.11 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,997.29 | $85.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,997.29 | $1,548.60 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,126.71 | $71.00 – $8,570.48 |