Neck (Cervical Spine) MRI (with and without contrast) at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$39,829.32
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.
$39,829.32
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.
$329.79 with Texas Childrens Health Plans vs $21,229.03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $329.79 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $329.79 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $334.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $334.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $334.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $334.46 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $341.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $361.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $362.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $362.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $362.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $362.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $412.24 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $699.43 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $828.27 | ↓ -98% |
| United | SmallGroup | $828.27 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $828.61 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BAV | $946.99 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,210.00 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,439.57 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,569.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,605.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,605.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,605.00 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,699.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,706.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,706.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,706.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,007.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,007.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,007.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,127.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,168.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,168.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,168.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,304.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $2,389.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $2,389.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $2,389.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $2,389.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $2,389.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,739.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,670.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,670.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $6,611.67 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $6,691.33 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $13,940.26 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $15,931.73 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $17,923.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $21,229.03 | ↓ -47% |
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Neck (Cervical Spine) MRI (with and without contrast) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $4,956.35 | $329.79 – $14,161.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $5,897.22 | $1,779.42 – $1,779.42 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,946.32 | $329.79 – $4,932.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,663.10 | $494.01 – $5,494.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,663.10 | $329.79 – $4,578.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,946.32 | $329.79 – $4,932.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,663.10 | $332.94 – $5,494.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,663.10 | $329.79 – $5,494.64 |