An cholangiogram percutaneous compl at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$12,001.96
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.
$12,001.96
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.
$948.00 with Superior Health Plan vs $8,488.50 with BCBS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,430.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,560.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,560.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,560.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,560.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,899.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,899.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,016.33 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,017.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,017.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,181.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,317.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,358.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,374.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,374.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,428.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,564.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,564.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,631.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,727.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,947.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,128.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $3,276.54 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,200.69 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -61% |
| United | SmallGroup | $4,760.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,800.78 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $5,400.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $5,841.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $5,849.00 | ↓ -51% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5,951.00 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $6,374.15 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $6,397.04 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | BAV | $6,436.33 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS | HMO | $6,436.33 | ↓ -46% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $6,800.00 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $7,462.42 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS | PPO | $8,488.50 | ↓ -29% |
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An cholangiogram percutaneous compl at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,525.90 | $2,719.98 – $10,074.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,823.00 | $3,614.70 – $5,410.25 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,525.90 | $2,719.98 – $10,074.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $5,410.25 – $5,410.25 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,417.63 | $684.99 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,285.88 | $71.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,987.17 | $71.00 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,417.63 | $644.70 – $8,570.48 |