Assay of procainamide at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$452.35
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.
$452.35
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.
$27.14 with Superior Health Plan vs $649.20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $27.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $27.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $27.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $27.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $27.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $50.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $50.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $50.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $50.40 | ↓ -89% |
| United | MGMCD | $51.41 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $54.43 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $55.44 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $55.44 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $55.44 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $55.44 | ↓ -88% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $58.80 | ↓ -87% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| United | SmallGroup | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $60.00 | ↓ -87% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $60.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $60.60 | ↓ -87% |
| United | MCR | $61.20 | ↓ -86% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $61.80 | ↓ -86% |
| WellCare | SNP | $61.80 | ↓ -86% |
| WellCare | PPO | $61.80 | ↓ -86% |
| WellCare | POS | $61.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $61.80 | ↓ -86% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $61.80 | ↓ -86% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | MCD | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $63.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $63.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $63.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $63.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $63.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $63.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $64.94 | ↓ -86% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $64.94 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $65.40 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $75.99 | ↓ -83% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $78.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $87.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $87.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | EPO | $93.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Superior | HMO | $93.00 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $121.20 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $123.49 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $129.00 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | BAV | $133.80 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $145.80 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $158.32 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | HMO | $167.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Oscar | HIX | $173.40 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $179.40 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | PPO | $191.40 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $203.56 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $219.79 | ↓ -51% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $241.10 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | CSN | $246.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $267.24 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $292.30 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $292.30 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $292.30 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $310.54 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $310.54 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $310.54 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | PPO | $317.95 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $364.80 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $364.80 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $364.80 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $394.44 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $394.44 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $394.44 | ↓ -13% |
| Humana | PPO | $649.20 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | HMO | $649.20 | ↑ +44% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of procainamide at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $50.40 – $246.72 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $139.90 | $10.00 – $174.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $114.91 | $12.00 – $172.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $114.91 | $12.00 – $144.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $139.90 | $10.00 – $174.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $114.91 | $12.00 – $172.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $114.91 | $8.00 – $172.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $114.91 | $12.00 – $172.36 |