Albumin (microalbumin) 24 hour urine quantitative at Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital
17201 Interstate 45 South, The Woodlands, TX · Houstonmethodist · · NPI 1184179194
$132.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$264.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$5.78 with Cigna vs $68.81 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Texas Healthspring Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo | $5.78 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo | $5.87 | ↓ -96% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $5.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | Advantage Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice | D-Snp Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $6.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice | Silver & Gold Exchange | $9.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Optum Health | Transplant Medicare Managed Care Plan | $11.27 | ↓ -91% |
| Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions | All Commercial Plans | $11.56 | ↓ -91% |
| Bcbs | All Commercial Plans | $24.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Network C-24 Hmo/Ppo | $65.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Local Plus/Surefit Hmo/Ppo | $65.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Pcp Optional/Pcp Required Benefit Plans Hmo | $68.81 | ↓ -48% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Albumin (microalbumin) 24 hour urine quantitative at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $75.60 | $4.16 – $216.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $223.41 | $5.20 – $22.25 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $92.09 | $4.05 – $13.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $79.98 | $1.39 – $13.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $77.51 | $4.86 – $13.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $92.09 | $4.86 – $13.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $79.98 | $5.20 – $13.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $79.98 | $4.86 – $13.87 |