Pulmonary vent imaging at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$10,381.32
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.
$10,381.32
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.
$176.43 with Texas Childrens Health Plans vs $5,533.24 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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| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $176.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $176.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $183.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $183.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $183.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $183.78 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $187.46 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $194.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $194.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $194.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $194.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $198.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $220.54 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $296.84 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $376.11 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | HMO | $573.44 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $595.37 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | PPO | $615.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $622.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $622.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $622.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $622.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $622.88 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $921.18 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,224.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,224.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,224.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,302.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,302.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,302.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,531.39 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,531.39 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,531.39 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,655.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,655.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,655.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,723.30 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,744.06 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,647.24 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,834.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,979.51 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,979.51 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,633.46 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $4,152.53 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,152.53 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $4,671.59 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $5,533.24 | ↓ -47% |
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Pulmonary vent imaging at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $412.65 | $117.90 – $1,179.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $828.73 | $169.08 – $1,035.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $865.48 | $178.15 – $1,298.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $962.14 | $169.08 – $1,202.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $828.73 | $169.08 – $1,035.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $865.48 | $180.92 – $1,298.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $865.48 | $169.08 – $1,298.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $962.14 | $169.08 – $1,443.20 |