Diphenhydramine 50 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$51.16
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.
$51.16
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.
$0.66 with TriWest Health Alliance vs $40.93 with TriWest Healthcare Alliance — 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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| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $0.66 | ↓ -99% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $0.66 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1.17 | ↓ -98% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1.17 | ↓ -98% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1.17 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1.35 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1.49 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1.86 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1.86 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1.86 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2.18 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2.36 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2.81 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $3.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $3.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $3.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $3.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $3.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | HMO | $5.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | PPO | $5.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $6.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $6.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $6.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $6.65 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $8.59 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $13.81 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $17.91 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $23.02 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $27.27 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $40.93 | ↓ -20% |
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Diphenhydramine 50 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $20.55 | $0.62 – $54.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $50.00 | $0.71 – $5.84 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $20.55 | $0.75 – $54.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $47.07 | $0.66 – $5.84 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $31.58 | $2.66 – $2.66 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $158.76 | $0.66 – $5.84 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $56.70 | $2.58 – $3.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $49.40 | $0.71 – $5.84 |