Cidofovir injection at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$6,965.86
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.
$6,965.86
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.
$417.95 with Superior Health Plan vs $4,656.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $417.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $417.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $417.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $417.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $417.95 | ↓ -94% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $521.83 | ↓ -93% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $521.83 | ↓ -93% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $865.39 | ↓ -88% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $865.39 | ↓ -88% |
| United | SmallGroup | $865.39 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $905.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $905.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $905.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $905.56 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,002.52 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,104.82 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,170.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,281.10 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,381.02 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,381.02 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,381.02 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,386.98 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,651.67 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,438.05 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,134.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,712.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,656.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,656.40 | ↓ -33% |
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Cidofovir injection at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $654.57 | $392.87 – $1,785.74 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $654.57 | $392.87 – $1,785.74 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $524.48 – $4,656.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $521.83 – $4,656.40 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $3,773.88 | $1,852.81 – $2,105.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $3,166.15 | $524.48 – $4,656.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $654.57 | $392.87 – $1,785.74 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $654.57 | $392.87 – $1,785.74 |