Creatine kinase isoenzymes at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$17.15
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.
$17.15
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.
$1.03 with Superior Health Plan vs $178.85 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 | $1.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.03 | ↓ -94% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2.88 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $4.68 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $6.00 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $7.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $9.14 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $11.25 | ↓ -34% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $11.25 | ↓ -34% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $11.25 | ↓ -34% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $11.25 | ↓ -34% |
| United | MGMCD | $11.47 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $12.15 | ↓ -29% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $12.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $12.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $12.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $12.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $13.12 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| United | SmallGroup | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $13.39 | ↓ -22% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $13.46 | ↓ -22% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $13.52 | ↓ -21% |
| United | MCR | $13.66 | ↓ -20% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $13.79 | ↓ -20% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $13.79 | ↓ -20% |
| WellCare | SNP | $13.79 | ↓ -20% |
| WellCare | PPO | $13.79 | ↓ -20% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $13.79 | ↓ -20% |
| WellCare | POS | $13.79 | ↓ -20% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | MCD | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $14.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $14.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $14.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $14.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $14.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $14.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $14.49 | ↓ -16% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $14.49 | ↓ -16% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $14.60 | ↓ -15% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $17.41 | ↑ +2% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $19.42 | ↑ +13% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $19.42 | ↑ +13% |
| Superior | EPO | $20.75 | ↑ +21% |
| Superior | HMO | $20.75 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $27.05 | ↑ +58% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $28.79 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS | BAV | $29.86 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS | HMO | $37.36 | ↑ +118% |
| Oscar | HIX | $38.70 | ↑ +126% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $40.04 | ↑ +133% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $40.17 | ↑ +134% |
| BCBS | PPO | $42.71 | ↑ +149% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $49.07 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | CSN | $55.77 | ↑ +225% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $60.41 | ↑ +252% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $65.25 | ↑ +280% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $65.25 | ↑ +280% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $65.25 | ↑ +280% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $69.33 | ↑ +304% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $69.33 | ↑ +304% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $69.33 | ↑ +304% |
| Cigna | PPO | $71.87 | ↑ +319% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $81.44 | ↑ +375% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $81.44 | ↑ +375% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $81.44 | ↑ +375% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $88.06 | ↑ +413% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $88.06 | ↑ +413% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $88.06 | ↑ +413% |
| Humana | PPO | $178.85 | ↑ +943% |
| Humana | HMO | $178.85 | ↑ +943% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Creatine kinase isoenzymes at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $11.25 – $55.77 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $32.79 | $8.71 – $32.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $116.08 | $2.99 – $32.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $92.02 | $11.23 – $32.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $32.79 | $10.00 – $32.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $116.08 | $11.23 – $32.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $116.08 | $8.00 – $32.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $92.02 | $11.23 – $32.14 |