Compatibility test each unit electronic at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$978.82
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.
$978.82
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.
$58.73 with Superior Health Plan vs $521.71 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 | $58.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $58.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $58.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $58.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $58.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $106.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | CSN | $112.93 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $122.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $127.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $127.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $127.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $127.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $142.24 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $142.24 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $142.24 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | PPO | $145.53 | ↓ -85% |
| United | SmallGroup | $149.16 | ↓ -85% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $149.16 | ↓ -85% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $149.16 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $151.11 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $151.11 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $151.11 | ↓ -85% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $162.48 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $164.44 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $177.52 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $177.52 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $177.52 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $190.87 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $191.94 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $191.94 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $191.94 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $231.98 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $231.98 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $249.60 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $267.22 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $289.87 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $299.61 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | HMO | $299.61 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | BAV | $320.00 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $342.59 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $391.53 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | HMO | $400.37 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $429.07 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $440.47 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | PPO | $457.76 | ↓ -53% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $521.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $249.55 | $67.74 – $713.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $188.22 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $211.75 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $211.75 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $188.22 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $211.75 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $211.75 | $8.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $211.75 | $12.00 – $423.12 |