Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$17,380.31
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.
$17,380.31
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.
$359.42 with United vs $9,263.71 with Coventry National First Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | MGMCD | $359.42 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $368.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $368.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $368.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $368.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $375.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $375.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $375.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $375.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $418.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $422.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,579.00 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,611.14 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,626.85 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,626.85 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,886.21 | ↓ -89% |
| United | SmallGroup | $2,030.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,098.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,098.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,128.00 | ↓ -88% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $2,130.00 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,145.56 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,229.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,229.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,251.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,299.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,315.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,428.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,444.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,613.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,623.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,623.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,631.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,832.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,832.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,876.00 | ↓ -83% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,900.00 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,919.89 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,106.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,128.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $6,083.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $6,952.12 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $7,821.14 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $9,263.71 | ↓ -47% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,356.90 | $600.21 – $2,223.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,356.90 | $600.21 – $2,223.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $328.25 – $1,367.50 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $334.95 – $1,367.50 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,666.30 | $71.00 – $2,499.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,457.75 | $71.00 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |