Artery x-rays chest at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$6,800.14
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.
$6,800.14
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.
$161.73 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $10,724.85 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $161.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $161.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $161.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $161.73 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $164.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $174.67 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $181.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $181.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $181.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $181.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $206.75 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | CSN | $388.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $408.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $408.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $408.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $408.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $408.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $420.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | PPO | $499.94 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $616.95 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $819.99 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $819.99 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $819.99 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $872.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $872.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $872.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,025.64 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,025.64 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,025.64 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,108.42 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,108.42 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,108.42 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,142.42 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,734.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,856.44 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,023.63 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,023.63 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,380.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,720.06 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,720.06 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,060.06 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,624.47 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $4,877.45 | ↓ -28% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5,437.15 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS | BAV | $6,179.95 | ↓ -9% |
| United | SmallGroup | $6,438.74 | ↓ -5% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $6,438.74 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS | HMO | $9,422.35 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $10,087.46 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS | PPO | $10,724.85 | ↑ +58% |
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Artery x-rays chest at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,628.15 | $161.73 – $7,509.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,628.15 | $140.00 – $7,509.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $5,688.13 | $161.73 – $4,877.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $161.73 – $4,877.45 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,498.28 | $514.23 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,943.48 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |