Descend thora aorta rpr/lt sub art 33880 at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$5,976.81
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.
$5,976.81
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.
$776.99 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $22,042.83 with BCBS — 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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| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $776.99 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $776.99 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $776.99 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $776.99 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,004.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1,613.74 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,091.88 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,390.72 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,689.56 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,185.64 | ↓ -47% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,390.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -22% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $4,781.45 | ↓ -20% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $5,841.00 | ↓ -2% |
| United | SmallGroup | $6,300.00 | ↑ +5% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $8,757.00 | ↑ +47% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9,000.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna | CSN | $10,740.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $11,636.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $12,018.00 | ↑ +101% |
| Cigna | PPO | $13,835.00 | ↑ +131% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $16,207.00 | ↑ +171% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $17,188.16 | ↑ +188% |
| BCBS | BAV | $18,931.34 | ↑ +217% |
| BCBS | PPO | $21,443.02 | ↑ +259% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $21,742.92 | ↑ +264% |
| BCBS | HMO | $22,042.83 | ↑ +269% |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $6,288.45 | $1,976.37 – $17,967.00 |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $17,188.16 – $17,188.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $17,188.16 – $17,188.16 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $8,271.10 | $1,702.47 – $12,406.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $8,271.10 | $1,654.22 – $10,338.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $8,684.65 | $2,315.91 – $12,303.26 |