Brain image w/flow 4 + views at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$4,187.18
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.
$4,187.18
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.
$251.23 with Superior Health Plan vs $3,000.01 with Aetna — 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 | $251.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $251.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $251.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $251.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $251.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $326.11 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $326.11 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $326.11 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $326.11 | ↓ -92% |
| United | MGMCD | $332.63 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $335.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $335.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $335.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $335.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $352.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | MCD | $380.91 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $546.13 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | BAV | $691.97 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $703.45 | ↓ -83% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $929.86 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,055.02 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,067.73 | ↓ -75% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -74% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,101.15 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,129.49 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,143.10 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,200.86 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,336.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,336.13 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,465.51 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,669.82 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,674.87 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,674.87 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,884.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,219.35 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,219.35 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,219.35 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,231.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,360.86 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,360.86 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,360.86 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,775.95 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,775.95 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,775.95 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,000.01 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,000.01 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,000.01 | ↓ -28% |
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Brain image w/flow 4 + views at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,168.65 | $304.73 – $3,339.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,168.65 | $267.12 – $3,339.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $298.64 – $1,669.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $304.73 – $1,669.82 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,337.97 | $481.23 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,901.40 | $295.70 – $2,376.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |