F-18 fdg pet diag at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$3,681.20
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.
$3,681.20
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.
$220.87 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,962.08 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $220.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $220.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $220.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $220.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $220.87 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $382.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $478.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $478.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $478.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $478.56 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | PPO | $526.50 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | HMO | $526.50 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $526.50 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $544.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $588.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $611.08 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $618.44 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $657.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $699.43 | ↓ -81% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $711.50 | ↓ -81% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $711.50 | ↓ -81% |
| United | SmallGroup | $711.50 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $717.83 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $872.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $872.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $938.71 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $993.92 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,004.97 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,074.91 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,074.91 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,074.91 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,144.85 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,144.85 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,144.85 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,288.42 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,347.32 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,347.32 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,347.32 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,457.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,457.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,457.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,472.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,472.48 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,656.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,899.30 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,899.30 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,962.08 | ↓ -47% |
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F-18 fdg pet diag at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $479.15 | $100.00 – $1,369.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $3,262.36 | $382.20 – $1,899.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,325.37 | $382.20 – $1,899.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $3,768.75 | $382.20 – $1,899.30 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $479.15 | $100.00 – $1,369.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $632.63 | $269.10 – $3,253.50 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $177.00 | $100.00 – $1,062.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $479.15 | $100.00 – $1,369.00 |