CPAP or BiPAP Setup (first day) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$713.07
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.
$713.07
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.
$42.78 with Superior Health Plan vs $606.11 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $42.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $42.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $42.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $42.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $42.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $92.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $92.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $92.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $92.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $99.83 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $99.83 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $119.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $139.05 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $221.76 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $221.76 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $221.76 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $236.03 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $236.03 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $236.03 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $236.24 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $236.24 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $249.57 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $276.67 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $276.67 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $276.67 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $285.23 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $298.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $298.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $298.78 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $320.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $369.37 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $430.47 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | BAV | $474.62 | ↓ -33% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $534.80 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | HMO | $594.19 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS | PPO | $594.19 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $594.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $606.11 | ↓ -15% |
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CPAP or BiPAP Setup (first day) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $754.60 | $100.00 – $2,156.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $3,765.00 | $430.47 – $430.47 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $754.60 | $100.00 – $2,156.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $768.85 | $430.47 – $430.47 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $1,647.00 | $219.97 – $428.95 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $1,613.00 | $219.97 – $879.90 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $1,647.00 | $219.97 – $879.90 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $2,597.51 | $708.25 – $708.25 |