Assay of urine urobilinogen at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$466.85
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.
$466.85
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.
$5.08 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $248.83 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 | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $5.18 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $5.49 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $5.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $5.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $5.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $5.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $5.93 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $6.05 | ↓ -99% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $6.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $6.11 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MCR | $6.17 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $6.23 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | POS | $6.23 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $6.23 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PPO | $6.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $6.23 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | SNP | $6.23 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $6.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $6.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $6.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $6.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $6.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $6.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $6.55 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $6.55 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $6.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $7.87 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $8.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $8.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | EPO | $9.38 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | HMO | $9.38 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $12.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $13.01 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $13.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $15.09 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | HMO | $16.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Oscar | HIX | $17.48 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $18.09 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | PPO | $19.30 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $22.17 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | CSN | $25.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $27.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $28.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $28.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $28.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $28.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $28.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $29.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $29.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $29.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $31.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $31.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $31.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | PPO | $32.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $36.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $36.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $36.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $39.79 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $39.79 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $39.79 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | PPO | $67.19 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | HMO | $67.19 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $78.43 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $127.45 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $163.40 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $210.08 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $248.83 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of urine urobilinogen at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $4.98 – $25.07 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $5.08 – $25.07 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $7.45 | $4.47 – $14.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $7.45 | $1.53 – $14.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $7.45 | $5.08 – $14.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $7.45 | $5.08 – $14.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $7.45 | $5.44 – $14.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $7.45 | $5.08 – $14.52 |