Assay of estrogen at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$1,645.86
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.
$1,645.86
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.
$73.82 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $950.86 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $73.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $73.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $73.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $73.82 | ↓ -96% |
| United | MGMCD | $75.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $79.73 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $81.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $81.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $81.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $81.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $86.12 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| United | SmallGroup | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $87.88 | ↓ -95% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $88.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $88.76 | ↓ -95% |
| United | MCR | $89.64 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $90.52 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | POS | $90.52 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $90.52 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | PPO | $90.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $90.52 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | SNP | $90.52 | ↓ -95% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | MCD | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $92.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $93.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $93.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $93.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $93.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $93.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $95.11 | ↓ -94% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $95.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $95.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $98.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $98.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $98.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $98.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $98.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $114.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $127.43 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $127.43 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior | EPO | $136.21 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior | HMO | $136.21 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $177.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $188.94 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | BAV | $195.97 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $213.55 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | HMO | $245.19 | ↓ -85% |
| Oscar | HIX | $253.97 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $262.76 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $276.50 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | PPO | $280.34 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $321.93 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | CSN | $361.04 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $391.05 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $428.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $428.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $428.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $449.32 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $454.84 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $454.84 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $454.84 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | PPO | $465.26 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $534.32 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $534.32 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $534.32 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $576.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $577.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $577.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $577.73 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $740.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $877.24 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | PPO | $950.86 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | HMO | $950.86 | ↓ -42% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of estrogen at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $72.34 – $361.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $73.82 – $361.04 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $184.34 | $35.00 – $230.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $510.12 | $36.00 – $765.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $510.12 | $36.00 – $637.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $184.34 | $35.00 – $230.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $510.12 | $36.00 – $765.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $510.12 | $26.00 – $765.18 |