Assay of progesterone at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$1,802.78
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.
$1,802.78
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.
$54.50 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $960.88 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 | STAR | $54.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $54.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $54.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $54.50 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $55.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $58.86 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $59.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $59.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $59.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $59.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $63.58 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| United | SmallGroup | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $64.88 | ↓ -96% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $65.20 | ↓ -96% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $65.53 | ↓ -96% |
| United | MCR | $66.18 | ↓ -96% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $66.83 | ↓ -96% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $66.83 | ↓ -96% |
| WellCare | POS | $66.83 | ↓ -96% |
| WellCare | SNP | $66.83 | ↓ -96% |
| WellCare | PPO | $66.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $66.83 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $68.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MCD | $68.13 | ↓ -96% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $68.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $68.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $68.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $68.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $68.77 | ↓ -96% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $70.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $70.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $70.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $84.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $94.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $94.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | EPO | $100.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior | HMO | $100.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $108.17 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $108.17 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $108.17 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $108.17 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $108.17 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $131.06 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $139.49 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BAV | $144.68 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | HMO | $181.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Oscar | HIX | $187.50 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $193.99 | ↓ -89% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $194.64 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | PPO | $206.97 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $237.67 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $266.25 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $288.39 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $302.87 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $316.08 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $316.08 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $316.08 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $335.80 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $335.80 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $335.80 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | PPO | $343.11 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $394.48 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $394.48 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $394.48 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $426.53 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $426.53 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $426.53 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $492.16 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $630.97 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $811.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | HMO | $866.68 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | PPO | $866.68 | ↓ -52% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $960.88 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of progesterone at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $53.41 – $266.25 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $54.50 – $266.25 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $285.19 | $35.00 – $356.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $285.19 | $36.00 – $427.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $285.19 | $36.00 – $356.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $285.19 | $35.00 – $356.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $285.19 | $36.00 – $427.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $285.19 | $26.00 – $427.79 |