Contrast x-ray of knee joint at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$2,287.78
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.
$2,287.78
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.
$110.94 with Texas Childrens Health Plans vs $1,546.15 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 |
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| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $110.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $110.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $122.03 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $122.03 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $122.03 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $122.03 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $128.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $128.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $128.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $128.31 | ↓ -94% |
| United | MGMCD | $130.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $137.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $137.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $137.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $137.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $137.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $138.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | MCD | $138.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | CSN | $356.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $379.77 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $384.35 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $385.89 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $458.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $583.38 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $624.56 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $672.06 | ↓ -71% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $699.43 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $722.73 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $800.72 | ↓ -65% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $828.27 | ↓ -64% |
| United | SmallGroup | $828.27 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | BAV | $851.53 | ↓ -63% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $915.11 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $915.11 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $960.57 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $960.57 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $960.57 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,021.82 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,021.82 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,021.82 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,029.50 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,201.48 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,201.48 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,201.48 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,219.39 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,298.29 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,298.46 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,298.46 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,298.46 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,347.93 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,393.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,546.15 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,546.15 | ↓ -32% |
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Contrast x-ray of knee joint at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $603.40 | $110.94 – $1,724.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $495.60 | $110.94 – $952.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $923.65 | $190.12 – $1,385.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $942.13 | $110.94 – $1,177.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $495.60 | $110.94 – $952.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $923.65 | $118.71 – $1,385.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $923.65 | $110.94 – $1,385.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $942.13 | $110.94 – $1,413.19 |