Barium Enema (Colon X-ray, barium and air) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$6,608.55
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.
$6,608.55
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.
$175.06 with Amerigroup vs $5,617.27 with Multiplan — 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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| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $175.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $175.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $180.34 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $180.34 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $180.34 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $180.34 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $183.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $192.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $192.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $192.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $192.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $194.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $218.82 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $320.71 | ↓ -95% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $339.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $396.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $396.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $396.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $396.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $396.51 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $401.74 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BAV | $406.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | CSN | $600.30 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | HMO | $619.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $649.66 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $663.28 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | PPO | $705.19 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | PPO | $772.27 | ↓ -88% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,110.24 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,394.82 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,394.82 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,394.82 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,484.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,484.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,484.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,685.18 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,744.94 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,744.94 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,744.94 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,804.13 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,886.69 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,886.69 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,886.69 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,189.41 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,189.41 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,312.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,643.42 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,643.42 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,973.85 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,423.23 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $4,956.41 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $5,617.27 | ↓ -15% |
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Barium Enema (Colon X-ray, barium and air) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,032.10 | $175.06 – $5,806.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $5,853.00 | $171.56 – $1,394.82 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,032.10 | $140.00 – $5,806.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $6,394.95 | $175.06 – $1,394.82 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $2,860.50 | $176.20 – $343.59 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $1,269.00 | $176.20 – $704.80 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $2,860.50 | $176.20 – $704.80 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $785.86 | $167.39 – $982.33 |