Aluminum - quest at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$377.17
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.
$377.17
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.
$21.40 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $340.40 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+PLUS | $21.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $21.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $21.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $21.40 | ↓ -94% |
| United | MGMCD | $21.83 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $22.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $22.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $22.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $22.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $22.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $23.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $23.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $23.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $23.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $23.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $24.97 | ↓ -93% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $25.48 | ↓ -93% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $25.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $25.73 | ↓ -93% |
| United | MCR | $25.99 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $26.24 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | SNP | $26.24 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | PPO | $26.24 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | POS | $26.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $26.24 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $26.24 | ↓ -93% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MCD | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $26.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $27.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $27.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $27.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $27.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $27.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $27.58 | ↓ -93% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $27.58 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $27.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $33.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $36.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $36.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | EPO | $39.49 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | HMO | $39.49 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $51.47 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $54.78 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | BAV | $56.82 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $63.36 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $71.09 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $73.64 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $76.19 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $76.45 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | PPO | $81.28 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $93.32 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $102.97 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | CSN | $104.53 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $113.22 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $124.10 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $124.10 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $124.10 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $131.84 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $131.84 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $131.84 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $132.01 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | PPO | $134.70 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $154.88 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $154.88 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $154.88 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $167.46 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $167.46 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $167.46 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $169.73 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $201.03 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $340.40 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | PPO | $340.40 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $30.10 | $18.35 – $86.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $416.00 | $20.97 – $104.53 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $30.10 | $18.35 – $86.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $21.40 – $104.53 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $123.83 | $10.00 – $154.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $121.48 | $12.00 – $182.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $127.37 | $12.00 – $159.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $123.83 | $10.00 – $154.79 |