Assay of lap enzyme at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$498.50
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.
$498.50
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.
$8.24 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $265.70 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 | $8.24 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $8.24 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $8.24 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $8.24 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $8.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $8.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $9.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $9.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $9.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $9.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $9.61 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| United | SmallGroup | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $9.81 | ↓ -98% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $9.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $9.91 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MCR | $10.01 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $10.10 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | POS | $10.10 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $10.10 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | PPO | $10.10 | ↓ -98% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $10.10 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | SNP | $10.10 | ↓ -98% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $10.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $10.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $10.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $10.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $10.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $10.40 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $10.62 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $10.62 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $10.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $12.75 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $14.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $14.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | HMO | $15.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | EPO | $15.21 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $19.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $21.09 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $21.88 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | HMO | $27.37 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $27.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | HIX | $28.35 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $29.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $29.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $29.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $29.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $29.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $29.91 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | PPO | $31.29 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $35.96 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | CSN | $40.44 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $43.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $47.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $47.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $47.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $50.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $50.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $50.80 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | PPO | $52.12 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $59.68 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $59.68 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $59.68 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $64.53 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $64.53 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $64.53 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $83.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | HMO | $122.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | PPO | $122.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $136.09 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $174.47 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $224.32 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $265.70 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of lap enzyme at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $146.00 | $8.08 – $40.44 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $8.24 – $40.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $82.20 | $8.24 – $102.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $85.79 | $12.00 – $128.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $85.79 | $8.24 – $107.24 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $82.20 | $8.24 – $102.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $85.79 | $8.82 – $128.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $85.79 | $8.00 – $128.69 |