Acute hepatitis panel at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
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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.
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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.
$8.08 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $636.32 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $8.08 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $8.08 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $8.08 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $8.08 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $8.24 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $8.73 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $8.89 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $8.89 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $8.89 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $8.89 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $10.10 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $11.55 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $11.55 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $11.55 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $11.55 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $11.55 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $32.35 | — |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $46.68 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $47.63 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $47.63 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $47.63 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $47.63 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $47.63 | — |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $47.63 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $47.63 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $47.63 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $47.63 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $47.63 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $47.63 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $47.63 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $47.63 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $47.63 | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $47.87 | — |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $48.11 | — |
| United | MCR | $48.58 | — |
| WellCare | PFFS | $49.06 | — |
| WellCare | PPO | $49.06 | — |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $49.06 | — |
| WellCare | SNP | $49.06 | — |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $49.06 | — |
| WellCare | POS | $49.06 | — |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $50.01 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $50.01 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $50.01 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $50.01 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $50.01 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $50.01 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $50.01 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $50.01 | — |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $50.01 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $50.49 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $50.49 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $50.49 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $50.49 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $50.49 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $51.55 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $51.55 | — |
| Molina | MGMCR | $51.92 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $52.57 | — |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $61.92 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $67.39 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $69.06 | — |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $69.06 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $73.83 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $73.83 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $86.65 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $96.21 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $102.40 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $102.63 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $106.21 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $132.89 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $137.65 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $142.41 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $142.91 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $151.94 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $174.48 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $196.54 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $212.88 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $232.04 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $232.04 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $232.04 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $246.52 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $246.52 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $246.52 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $253.28 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $289.60 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $289.60 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $289.60 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $313.13 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $313.13 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $313.13 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $636.32 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $636.32 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Acute hepatitis panel at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $389.55 | $8.08 – $1,113.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,285.00 | $7.92 – $196.54 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $389.55 | $8.08 – $1,113.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $1,330.53 | $8.08 – $196.54 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $841.45 | $42.87 – $183.38 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $387.68 | $10.00 – $484.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $418.81 | $12.00 – $628.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $382.50 | $12.00 – $478.12 |