Battery elec/combo vad, rep at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$3,124.00
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.
$3,124.00
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.
$187.44 with Superior Health Plan vs $14,275.63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $187.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $187.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $187.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $187.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $187.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $406.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $406.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $406.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $406.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $462.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $499.84 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $509.21 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $524.83 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $562.32 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $593.56 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $702.90 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $718.52 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $731.02 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,093.40 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,405.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,665.09 | ↓ -47% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $1,818.76 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $1,855.88 | ↓ -41% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $1,865.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $1,874.44 | ↓ -40% |
| United | MCR | $1,893.00 | ↓ -39% |
| WellCare | PPO | $1,911.56 | ↓ -39% |
| WellCare | SNP | $1,911.56 | ↓ -39% |
| WellCare | POS | $1,911.56 | ↓ -39% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $1,911.56 | ↓ -39% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $1,911.56 | ↓ -39% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $1,911.56 | ↓ -39% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $1,948.67 | ↓ -38% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $1,967.23 | ↓ -37% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $1,967.23 | ↓ -37% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $1,967.23 | ↓ -37% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $1,967.23 | ↓ -37% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $1,967.23 | ↓ -37% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $2,022.91 | ↓ -35% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $2,412.64 | ↓ -23% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $2,691.03 | ↓ -14% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $2,691.03 | ↓ -14% |
| Superior | EPO | $2,876.61 | ↓ -8% |
| Superior | HMO | $2,876.61 | ↓ -8% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $3,990.14 | ↑ +28% |
| Humana | HMO | $14,275.63 | ↑ +357% |
| Humana | PPO | $14,275.63 | ↑ +357% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,818.76 – $3,990.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,818.76 – $3,990.14 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $333.18 | $63.75 – $300.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,736.40 | $68.58 – $499.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,736.40 | $66.64 – $444.24 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $333.18 | $60.00 – $300.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,736.40 | $106.95 – $499.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,736.40 | $172.14 – $499.77 |