X-ray knee ap standing bilateral at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$4,124.81
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.
$4,124.81
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.
$40.10 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $2,198.52 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 | CHIPPerinatal | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $40.90 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $43.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $44.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $44.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $44.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $44.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $50.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | CSN | $115.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $124.52 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $140.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | PPO | $148.02 | ↓ -96% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $153.71 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $177.98 | ↓ -96% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $182.03 | ↓ -96% |
| United | SmallGroup | $182.03 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $190.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $247.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $247.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $247.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $247.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $247.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $253.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $253.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $253.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $269.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $269.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $269.97 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | HMO | $271.35 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $281.73 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | PPO | $291.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $317.44 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $317.44 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $317.44 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $343.06 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $343.06 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $343.06 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | PPO | $471.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | HMO | $471.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $684.72 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $692.97 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,051.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,126.07 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,443.68 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,649.92 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,649.92 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,856.16 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,198.52 | ↓ -47% |
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X-ray knee ap standing bilateral at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $492.80 | $40.10 – $1,408.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $922.15 | $307.27 – $307.27 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $299.78 | $40.10 – $374.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $289.34 | $59.56 – $434.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $300.65 | $40.10 – $375.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $299.78 | $40.10 – $374.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $289.34 | $42.91 – $434.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $289.34 | $40.10 – $434.01 |