Assay of corticosterone at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$911.28
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.
$911.28
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.
$18.92 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $485.71 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 | $18.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $18.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $18.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $18.92 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $19.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $20.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $20.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $20.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $20.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $20.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $22.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| United | SmallGroup | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $22.52 | ↓ -98% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $22.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $22.75 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MCR | $22.97 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $23.20 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | POS | $23.20 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $23.20 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | PPO | $23.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $23.20 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | SNP | $23.20 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $23.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $23.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $23.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $23.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $23.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $23.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $24.55 | ↓ -97% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $29.28 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $32.65 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $32.65 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | EPO | $34.91 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | HMO | $34.91 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $45.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $48.42 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | BAV | $50.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $54.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $54.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $54.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $54.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $54.68 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $62.83 | ↓ -93% |
| Oscar | HIX | $65.08 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $67.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $67.55 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | PPO | $71.84 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $82.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | CSN | $92.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $99.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $109.74 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $109.74 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $109.74 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $116.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $116.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $116.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | PPO | $118.58 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $136.96 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $136.96 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $136.96 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $148.09 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $148.09 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $148.09 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $153.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $248.78 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $300.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $300.80 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $318.95 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $410.08 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $485.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of corticosterone at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $305.00 | $18.54 – $92.01 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $18.92 – $92.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $155.33 | $12.00 – $232.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $155.33 | $12.00 – $194.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $155.33 | $12.00 – $232.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $155.33 | $8.00 – $232.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $155.33 | $12.00 – $232.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $155.33 | $18.92 – $194.16 |