Cholesterol body fluid at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$462.06
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.
$462.06
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.
$27.72 with Superior Health Plan vs $246.28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $27.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $27.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $27.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $27.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $27.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $60.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $60.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $60.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $60.07 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $75.32 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $76.70 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $77.63 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $83.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $90.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | CSN | $99.55 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | HMO | $103.96 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $106.27 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.82 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $108.12 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $109.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $109.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $111.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $117.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $124.76 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $126.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | PPO | $128.28 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $134.92 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $134.92 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $134.92 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $143.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $143.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $143.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | PPO | $147.44 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $147.44 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $161.72 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $169.11 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $169.11 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $169.11 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $182.98 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $182.98 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $182.98 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $184.82 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $207.93 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $246.28 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Cholesterol body fluid at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $716.44 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $136.71 | $53.34 – $275.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $24.90 | $14.50 – $96.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $523.04 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $228.00 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston | Livingston | $24.90 | $12.76 – $96.56 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine | San Augustine | $24.90 | $10.44 – $96.56 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $558.79 | $10.01 – $10.01 |