Brain image 4+ views at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$9,961.84
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.
$9,961.84
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.
$196.14 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $5,309.66 with Coventry National First Health — 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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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $196.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $196.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $196.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $196.14 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $200.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $208.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $208.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $208.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $208.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $211.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $236.39 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $315.87 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $400.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $597.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $597.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $597.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $597.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $597.71 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $610.20 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $653.27 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | PPO | $694.55 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $929.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $982.92 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -89% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,101.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,306.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,306.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,306.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,389.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,389.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,389.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,634.03 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,634.03 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,634.03 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,673.59 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,765.92 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,765.92 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,765.92 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,540.27 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,719.58 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $3,147.32 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $3,147.32 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,486.64 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,984.74 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,984.74 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $4,482.83 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $5,309.66 | ↓ -47% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $185.33 – $982.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $189.11 – $982.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,097.98 | $226.00 – $1,646.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,152.88 | $183.78 – $1,441.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,097.98 | $196.64 – $1,646.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,097.98 | $183.78 – $1,646.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,152.88 | $183.78 – $1,729.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $1,097.98 | $183.78 – $1,372.48 |