Compatibility test each unit immediate spin technique at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$651.82
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.
$651.82
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.
$39.11 with Superior Health Plan vs $457.76 with BCBS — 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $39.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $39.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $39.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $39.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $39.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $84.74 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $84.74 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $84.74 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $84.74 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $108.20 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $109.51 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $127.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $133.03 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | CSN | $140.77 | ↓ -78% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $149.16 | ↓ -77% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $149.16 | ↓ -77% |
| United | SmallGroup | $149.16 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $152.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $154.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $154.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $166.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $176.92 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $176.92 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $176.92 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $177.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | PPO | $181.41 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $187.96 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $187.96 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $187.96 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $220.80 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $220.80 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $220.80 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $228.14 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $238.74 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $238.74 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $238.74 | ↓ -63% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $260.73 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $289.87 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $293.32 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | BAV | $320.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $347.42 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $376.32 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | PPO | $376.32 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS | HMO | $400.37 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $429.07 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS | PPO | $457.76 | ↓ -30% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $249.55 | $84.26 – $713.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $128.09 | $552.48 – $552.48 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $169.52 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $158.27 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $149.06 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $169.52 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $158.27 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $158.27 | $8.00 – $423.12 |