Culture anaerobic except blood at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
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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.
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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.
$7.95 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $518.75 with Coventry National First Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $7.95 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $7.95 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $7.95 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $7.95 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $8.11 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $8.59 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $8.75 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $8.75 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $8.75 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $8.75 | — |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $9.28 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $9.47 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $9.47 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9.47 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $9.47 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $9.47 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $9.47 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $9.47 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $9.47 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $9.47 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $9.47 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $9.47 | — |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $9.47 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $9.47 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $9.47 | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $9.52 | — |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $9.56 | — |
| United | MCR | $9.66 | — |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $9.75 | — |
| WellCare | POS | $9.75 | — |
| WellCare | PFFS | $9.75 | — |
| WellCare | PPO | $9.75 | — |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $9.75 | — |
| WellCare | SNP | $9.75 | — |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $9.94 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $9.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $9.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $9.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $9.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $9.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $9.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $9.94 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $9.94 | — |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $9.94 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $10.04 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $10.04 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $10.04 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $10.04 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $10.04 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $10.25 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $10.25 | — |
| Molina | MGMCR | $10.32 | — |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $12.31 | — |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $13.73 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $13.73 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $14.68 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $14.68 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $19.13 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $20.36 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $21.12 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $26.42 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $27.37 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $28.32 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $28.40 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $30.21 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $34.70 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $39.01 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $42.26 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $46.15 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $46.15 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $46.15 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $49.03 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $49.03 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $49.03 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $50.28 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $57.60 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $57.60 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $57.60 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $58.40 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $58.40 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $58.40 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $58.40 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $58.40 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $62.28 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $62.28 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $62.28 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $126.49 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $126.49 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $163.51 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $265.70 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $340.64 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $437.97 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $518.75 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $143.50 | $6.82 – $410.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,230.00 | $7.79 – $39.01 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $143.50 | $6.82 – $410.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $265.91 | $8.52 – $36.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $208.06 | $7.95 – $56.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $155.83 | $8.88 – $64.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $188.95 | $7.95 – $53.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $208.06 | $7.95 – $56.66 |