Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$19.69
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.
$19.69
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.
$1.18 with Superior Health Plan vs $27.97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $2.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $2.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $2.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $2.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $3.27 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $3.31 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $4.67 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $4.67 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $5.32 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $6.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $6.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $6.64 | ↓ -66% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $6.64 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $6.89 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $8.86 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $10.49 | ↓ -47% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $11.17 | ↓ -43% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $11.17 | ↓ -43% |
| United | SmallGroup | $11.17 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $16.27 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | CSN | $19.67 | ↓ -0% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $21.30 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $22.41 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS | PPO | $22.41 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS | HMO | $22.41 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | PPO | $25.37 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS | BAV | $27.97 | ↑ +42% |
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Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $57.47 | $31.96 – $31.96 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $57.96 | $28.23 – $31.04 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $10.59 | $6.11 – $39.23 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |