Tc-99m exametazime diag at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$6,745.24
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.
$6,745.24
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.
$404.71 with Superior Health Plan vs $17,017.34 with Humana — 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 | $404.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $404.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $404.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $404.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $404.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $876.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $876.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $876.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $876.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,119.71 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,133.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,315.32 | ↓ -81% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,530.72 | ↓ -77% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,530.72 | ↓ -77% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,530.72 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1,598.62 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1,598.62 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,720.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,841.45 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,969.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,969.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,969.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,097.77 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,097.77 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,097.77 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,360.83 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,468.76 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,468.76 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,468.76 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,671.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,671.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,671.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,698.10 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,698.10 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $2,842.27 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,035.36 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,595.21 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | HMO | $3,915.38 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS | PPO | $3,915.38 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $3,915.38 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | CSN | $4,230.77 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $4,580.41 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS | BAV | $4,886.97 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | PPO | $5,454.54 | ↓ -19% |
| Humana | PPO | $17,017.34 | ↑ +152% |
| Humana | HMO | $17,017.34 | ↑ +152% |
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Tc-99m exametazime diag at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $2,135.70 | $100.00 – $6,102.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $9,053.47 | $1,530.72 – $17,017.34 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $6,497.16 | $1,530.72 – $17,017.34 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $2,389.91 | $100.00 – $5,121.00 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,135.70 | $100.00 – $6,102.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $494.55 | $360.04 – $2,543.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $524.70 | $100.00 – $3,148.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $3,218.16 | $1,530.72 – $17,017.34 |