Chromosome karyotype study at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$72.66
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.
$72.66
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.
$4.36 with Superior Health Plan vs $362.15 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 | CHPFC | $4.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $4.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $4.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $4.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $4.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $12.06 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $12.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $19.84 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $25.43 | ↓ -65% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $28.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $28.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $28.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $28.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $28.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $28.11 | ↓ -61% |
| United | MGMCD | $28.67 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $30.36 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $30.92 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $30.92 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $30.92 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $30.92 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $32.70 | ↓ -55% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | VeteransPCCC | $32.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $32.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| United | SmallGroup | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $33.47 | ↓ -54% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $33.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $33.80 | ↓ -53% |
| United | MCR | $34.14 | ↓ -53% |
| WellCare | PPO | $34.47 | ↓ -53% |
| WellCare | SNP | $34.47 | ↓ -53% |
| WellCare | POS | $34.47 | ↓ -53% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $34.47 | ↓ -53% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $34.47 | ↓ -53% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $34.47 | ↓ -53% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | MCD | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $35.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $35.48 | ↓ -51% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $35.48 | ↓ -51% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $35.48 | ↓ -51% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $35.48 | ↓ -51% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $35.48 | ↓ -51% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $36.22 | ↓ -50% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $36.22 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $36.48 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $38.73 | ↓ -47% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $43.51 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $48.53 | ↓ -33% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $48.53 | ↓ -33% |
| Superior | HMO | $51.88 | ↓ -29% |
| Superior | EPO | $51.88 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $67.61 | ↓ -7% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $71.96 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS | BAV | $74.64 | ↑ +3% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $81.33 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS | HMO | $93.38 | ↑ +29% |
| Oscar | HIX | $96.73 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $100.08 | ↑ +38% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $100.41 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS | PPO | $106.77 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $122.62 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna | CSN | $138.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $149.47 | ↑ +106% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $163.07 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $163.07 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $163.07 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $173.25 | ↑ +138% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $173.25 | ↑ +138% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $173.25 | ↑ +138% |
| Cigna | PPO | $177.83 | ↑ +145% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $203.52 | ↑ +180% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $203.52 | ↑ +180% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $203.52 | ↑ +180% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $220.06 | ↑ +203% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $220.06 | ↑ +203% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $220.06 | ↑ +203% |
| Humana | PPO | $362.15 | ↑ +398% |
| Humana | HMO | $362.15 | ↑ +398% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Chromosome karyotype study at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $94.15 | $24.10 – $269.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $395.05 | $28.11 – $493.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $119.87 | $24.67 – $179.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $92.20 | $28.11 – $115.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $395.05 | $28.11 – $493.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $119.87 | $30.08 – $179.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $119.87 | $26.00 – $179.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $92.20 | $28.11 – $138.30 |