Autologous blood op salvage at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$629.39
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.
$629.39
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.
$37.76 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,003.96 with BCBS — 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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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $37.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $37.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $37.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $37.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $37.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $81.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $81.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $81.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $81.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $93.15 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $100.70 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $105.74 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $119.58 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $122.73 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $160.49 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $171.82 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $200.84 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $200.84 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $220.29 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $251.76 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $283.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $335.46 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $533.53 | ↓ -15% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $656.15 | ↑ +4% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $656.15 | ↑ +4% |
| United | SmallGroup | $656.15 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $709.52 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $709.52 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $709.52 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $753.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $753.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $753.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $885.52 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $885.52 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $885.52 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $957.47 | ↑ +52% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $957.47 | ↑ +52% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $957.47 | ↑ +52% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,268.96 | ↑ +102% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,400.89 | ↑ +123% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,752.68 | ↑ +178% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,878.32 | ↑ +198% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,003.96 | ↑ +218% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Autologous blood op salvage at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $533.53 – $1,505.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $533.53 – $1,505.28 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $910.70 | $258.03 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $910.70 | $187.45 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $910.70 | $182.14 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $910.70 | $242.85 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $910.70 | $292.33 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $910.70 | $470.53 – $2,130.15 |