Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$24,370.38
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.
$24,370.38
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.
$1,462.22 with Superior Health Plan vs $25,611.62 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1,462.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1,462.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1,462.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1,462.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1,462.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,974.72 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,137.92 | ↓ -91% |
| United | SmallGroup | $2,364.78 | ↓ -90% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $2,364.78 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,364.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,545.92 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $3,168.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $3,168.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $3,168.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $3,168.15 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4,094.22 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $4,264.82 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | HMO | $4,264.82 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $4,752.22 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $4,825.34 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $5,298.02 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | BAV | $5,838.63 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $6,214.45 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $6,458.15 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $6,580.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $6,653.11 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | HMO | $7,298.29 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $7,298.29 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | PPO | $7,298.29 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $7,822.89 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $7,822.89 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $7,822.89 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $8,334.67 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $8,334.67 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $8,334.67 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $8,529.63 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $9,748.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $9,748.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $9,772.52 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $9,772.52 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $9,772.52 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $10,552.37 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $10,552.37 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $10,552.37 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $10,966.67 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $12,989.41 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $19,496.30 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | HMO | $25,611.62 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | PPO | $25,611.62 | ↑ +5% |
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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,822.99 | $740.83 – $3,367.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,275.00 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,822.99 | $740.83 – $3,367.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $24,366.17 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $2,038.33 | $10,406.82 – $10,406.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $7,386.88 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $16,864.12 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $17,535.47 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |