Autopsy (necropsy) gross at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$920.52
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.
$920.52
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.
$17.54 with Cigna vs $2,261.60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | CSN | $17.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $18.99 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | PPO | $22.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $55.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $55.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $55.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $55.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $55.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $119.67 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $119.67 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $119.67 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $119.67 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $154.65 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $179.50 | ↓ -81% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $210.41 | ↓ -77% |
| United | SmallGroup | $210.41 | ↓ -77% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $210.41 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $234.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $248.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $251.30 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $322.18 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $368.21 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $414.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $490.64 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $736.42 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $798.34 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $872.86 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS | BAV | $963.61 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,061.69 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,061.69 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,061.69 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,127.94 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,127.94 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,127.94 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,205.59 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,292.01 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,325.04 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,325.04 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,325.04 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,378.43 | ↑ +50% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,432.70 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,432.70 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,432.70 | ↑ +56% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,261.60 | ↑ +146% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,261.60 | ↑ +146% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Autopsy (necropsy) gross at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $17.54 – $2,261.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $17.54 – $2,261.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $953.11 | $17.54 – $2,261.60 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $1,663.62 – $1,663.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $17.54 – $2,261.60 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $459.51 – $1,884.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $17.54 – $2,261.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $17.54 – $2,261.60 |