Bone Age X-ray (hand and wrist) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$1,455.38
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.
$1,455.38
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.
$26.06 with Amerigroup vs $1,237.07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $26.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $26.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $26.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $26.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $26.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $26.06 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $26.58 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $28.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $28.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $28.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $28.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $28.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $32.57 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $61.64 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $66.71 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | PPO | $79.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $87.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $87.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $87.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $87.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $87.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $140.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $140.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $140.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $149.83 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $149.83 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $149.83 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $176.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $176.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $176.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $190.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $190.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $190.47 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | ↓ -86% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $244.50 | ↓ -83% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -83% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $371.12 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $397.32 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $407.97 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | PPO | $433.75 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | HMO | $482.17 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $482.17 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $509.38 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $582.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $582.15 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $654.92 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $753.89 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,091.54 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,237.07 | ↓ -15% |
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Bone Age X-ray (hand and wrist) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $210.70 | $26.06 – $602.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,416.00 | $25.54 – $197.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $210.70 | $26.06 – $602.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $374.50 | $64.42 – $204.79 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $237.00 | $68.02 – $420.09 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $374.50 | $64.42 – $420.09 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $26.06 – $197.26 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $175.04 | $26.06 – $272.35 |