Crystal identification light microscopy at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$514.37
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.
$514.37
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.
$6.16 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $274.16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $6.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $6.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $6.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $6.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $6.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $6.16 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $6.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $6.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $6.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $7.18 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | VeteransPCCC | $7.18 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $7.33 | ↓ -99% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $7.37 | ↓ -99% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $7.40 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MCR | $7.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $7.55 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | SNP | $7.55 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | POS | $7.55 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PPO | $7.55 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $7.55 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $7.55 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $7.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $7.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $7.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $7.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $7.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $7.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $7.93 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $7.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $7.99 | ↓ -98% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $9.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $10.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $10.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | EPO | $11.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | HMO | $11.36 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $14.81 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $15.76 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $16.35 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | HMO | $20.45 | ↓ -96% |
| Oscar | HIX | $21.18 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $21.45 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $21.92 | ↓ -96% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $21.99 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | PPO | $23.38 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $26.85 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | CSN | $30.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $30.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $30.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $30.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $30.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $30.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $33.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $35.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $35.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $35.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $37.93 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $37.93 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $37.93 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | PPO | $39.51 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $44.56 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $44.56 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $44.56 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $48.18 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $48.18 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $48.18 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $85.39 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $86.41 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | HMO | $95.54 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | PPO | $95.54 | ↓ -81% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $140.42 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $180.03 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $231.47 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $274.16 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Crystal identification light microscopy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $56.00 | $5.28 – $160.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $67.01 | $6.60 – $28.22 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $84.56 | $6.16 – $56.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $58.24 | $9.26 – $67.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $55.71 | $6.16 – $56.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $84.56 | $6.16 – $56.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $58.24 | $6.59 – $67.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $58.24 | $6.16 – $67.50 |