Culture typing glc/hplc at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$116.05
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.
$116.05
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.
$6.96 with Superior Health Plan vs $167.28 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 | STARPLUS | $6.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $6.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $6.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $6.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $6.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $10.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $10.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $10.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $10.52 | ↓ -91% |
| United | MGMCD | $10.73 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $11.36 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $11.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $11.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $11.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $11.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $12.27 | ↓ -89% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| United | SmallGroup | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $12.52 | ↓ -89% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $12.58 | ↓ -89% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $12.65 | ↓ -89% |
| United | MCR | $12.77 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $12.90 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | SNP | $12.90 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | PPO | $12.90 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | POS | $12.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $12.90 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $12.90 | ↓ -89% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | MCD | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $13.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $13.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $13.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $13.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $13.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $13.27 | ↓ -89% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $13.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $13.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $13.65 | ↓ -88% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $16.28 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $18.15 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $18.15 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior | EPO | $19.41 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $19.41 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $19.50 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $25.29 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $26.92 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | BAV | $27.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $31.68 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | HMO | $34.93 | ↓ -70% |
| Oscar | HIX | $36.18 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $37.43 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $37.57 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | PPO | $39.94 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $40.62 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $45.89 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | CSN | $51.57 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $52.22 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $55.86 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $61.02 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $61.02 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $61.02 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $61.85 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $64.83 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $64.83 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $64.83 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | PPO | $66.46 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $76.16 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $76.16 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $76.16 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $82.35 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $82.35 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $82.35 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | HMO | $167.28 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | PPO | $167.28 | ↑ +44% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Culture typing glc/hplc at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $10.31 – $51.57 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $10.52 – $51.57 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $82.73 | $10.00 – $103.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $82.73 | $10.00 – $103.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $82.73 | $10.00 – $103.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $82.73 | $10.00 – $103.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - IRVING | Irving | $82.73 | $10.00 – $103.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - LAKE POINTE | Rowlett | $82.73 | $10.00 – $103.41 |