Cytopathology cellular enhancement technique non-gyn at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$564.00
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.
$564.00
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.
$33.84 with Superior Health Plan vs $412.24 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $33.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $33.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $33.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $33.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $33.84 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $49.76 | ↓ -91% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $49.76 | ↓ -91% |
| United | SmallGroup | $49.76 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $73.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $73.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $73.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $73.32 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $94.75 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $99.93 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $109.98 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | BAV | $110.32 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $138.02 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $143.82 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $147.92 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $149.85 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $153.97 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $157.81 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | CSN | $165.58 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $179.35 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $197.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $199.29 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $199.29 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $199.29 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $211.72 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $211.72 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $211.72 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | PPO | $213.38 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $225.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $248.72 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $248.72 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $248.72 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $253.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $268.93 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $268.93 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $268.93 | ↓ -52% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $300.61 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $412.24 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana | PPO | $412.24 | ↓ -27% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Cytopathology cellular enhancement technique non-gyn at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $605.00 | $49.76 – $412.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $49.76 – $412.24 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $640.93 | $35.00 – $248.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $610.41 | $31.58 – $230.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $610.41 | $28.95 – $180.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $640.93 | $35.00 – $248.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $610.41 | $36.00 – $230.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $610.41 | $26.00 – $230.11 |