Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$4,870.12
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.
$4,870.12
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.
$18.77 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $2,595.77 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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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $18.77 | ↓ -100% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $18.77 | ↓ -100% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $18.77 | ↓ -100% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $18.77 | ↓ -100% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $18.77 | ↓ -100% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $18.77 | ↓ -100% |
| United | MGMCD | $19.15 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $20.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $20.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $20.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $20.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $20.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $21.89 | ↓ -100% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | VeteransPCCC | $21.89 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| United | SmallGroup | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $22.34 | ↓ -100% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $22.45 | ↓ -100% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $22.56 | ↓ -100% |
| United | MCR | $22.79 | ↓ -100% |
| WellCare | POS | $23.01 | ↓ -100% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $23.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $23.01 | ↓ -100% |
| WellCare | PPO | $23.01 | ↓ -100% |
| WellCare | SNP | $23.01 | ↓ -100% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $23.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | MCD | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $23.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $23.68 | ↓ -100% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $23.68 | ↓ -100% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $23.68 | ↓ -100% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $23.68 | ↓ -100% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $23.68 | ↓ -100% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $24.18 | ↓ -100% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $24.18 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $24.35 | ↓ -100% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $29.04 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $32.39 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $32.39 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | HMO | $34.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | EPO | $34.63 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $45.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $48.03 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BAV | $49.82 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | HMO | $62.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Oscar | HIX | $64.56 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $66.80 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $67.02 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $67.04 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | PPO | $71.26 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $81.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $92.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $99.66 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $108.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $108.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $108.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $115.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $115.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $115.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | PPO | $118.58 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $135.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $135.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $135.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $146.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $146.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $146.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $292.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $292.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $292.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $292.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $292.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | PPO | $298.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | HMO | $298.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $808.44 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $818.18 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,329.54 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,704.54 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,191.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,595.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $138.60 | $16.08 – $396.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $505.14 | $20.11 – $86.01 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $346.24 | $10.00 – $168.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $346.24 | $12.00 – $201.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $346.24 | $12.00 – $168.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $346.24 | $10.00 – $168.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $346.24 | $12.00 – $201.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $346.24 | $8.00 – $201.69 |