Amino acid single qual at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$635.66
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.
$635.66
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.
$11.91 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $338.81 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 | CHIP | $11.91 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $11.91 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $11.91 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $11.91 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $12.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $12.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $13.10 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $13.10 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $13.10 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $13.10 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $13.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| United | SmallGroup | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $14.25 | ↓ -98% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $14.32 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MCR | $14.46 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $14.61 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | POS | $14.61 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $14.61 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | PPO | $14.61 | ↓ -98% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $14.61 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | SNP | $14.61 | ↓ -98% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $14.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $15.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $15.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $15.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $15.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $15.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $15.35 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $15.35 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $15.46 | ↓ -98% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $18.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $20.56 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $20.56 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | EPO | $21.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | HMO | $21.98 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $28.64 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $30.49 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | BAV | $31.62 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $38.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $38.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $38.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $38.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $38.14 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $39.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | HIX | $40.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $41.62 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $42.40 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | PPO | $45.23 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $51.96 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | CSN | $58.54 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $63.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $69.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $69.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $69.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $73.41 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $73.41 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $73.41 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | PPO | $75.44 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $86.24 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $86.24 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $86.24 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $93.25 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $93.25 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $93.25 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $106.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $173.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $185.35 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | HMO | $185.35 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $222.48 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $286.05 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $338.81 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $11.91 – $58.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $72.03 | $12.00 – $108.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $72.03 | $11.91 – $90.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $72.03 | $12.00 – $108.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $72.03 | $8.00 – $108.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $72.03 | $11.91 – $108.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $72.03 | $11.91 – $90.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $72.03 | $11.91 – $108.05 |