Blood Transfusion at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$3,726.00
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.
$3,726.00
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.
$32.27 with Amerigroup vs $3,167.10 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 | MGMCD | $32.27 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $32.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $33.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $33.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $33.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $33.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $34.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $34.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $34.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $34.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $38.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $38.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $223.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $223.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $223.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $223.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $223.56 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $252.77 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $278.33 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | HMO | $323.49 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $412.42 | ↓ -89% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $445.40 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | PPO | $501.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $521.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $551.45 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $596.16 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $625.97 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $707.94 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $726.57 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $950.13 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,017.20 | ↓ -73% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,158.79 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,158.79 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,158.79 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,233.31 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,233.31 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,233.31 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,234.42 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,234.42 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,304.10 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,445.69 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,445.69 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,445.69 | ↓ -61% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,490.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,490.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,561.19 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,561.19 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,561.19 | ↓ -58% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,676.70 | ↓ -55% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,930.07 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $2,794.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $3,167.10 | ↓ -15% |
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Blood Transfusion at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $726.60 | $560.52 – $2,076.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,852.00 | $30.12 – $445.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $726.60 | $560.52 – $2,076.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $3,069.00 | $32.27 – $445.40 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $602.50 | $51.11 – $2,956.00 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $905.50 | $51.11 – $2,956.00 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $602.50 | $51.11 – $2,956.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,775.85 | $43.76 – $4,826.69 |