Drug test def 15-21 classes at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$3,111.02
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.
$3,111.02
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.
$166.94 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $1,935.73 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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| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $166.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $166.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $166.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $166.94 | ↓ -95% |
| United | MGMCD | $170.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $180.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $183.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $183.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $183.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $183.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $186.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $186.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $186.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $186.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $186.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $194.77 | ↓ -94% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $198.74 | ↓ -94% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $199.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $200.73 | ↓ -94% |
| United | MCR | $202.71 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $204.70 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | SNP | $204.70 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | PPO | $204.70 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | POS | $204.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $204.70 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $204.70 | ↓ -93% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MCD | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $208.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $210.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $210.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $210.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $210.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $210.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $215.10 | ↓ -93% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $215.10 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $216.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $258.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $288.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $288.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | HMO | $308.05 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | EPO | $308.05 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $401.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $427.29 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BAV | $443.19 | ↓ -86% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $482.94 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $522.65 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $554.48 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $574.36 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $594.23 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | PPO | $633.98 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $728.01 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | CSN | $816.85 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $849.31 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $884.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $968.17 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $968.17 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $968.17 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,028.58 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,028.58 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,028.58 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,052.67 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,088.86 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,208.32 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,208.32 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,208.32 | ↓ -61% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,244.41 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,306.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,306.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,306.50 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,399.96 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,658.17 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,935.73 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,935.73 | ↓ -38% |
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Drug test def 15-21 classes at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $163.60 – $816.85 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $166.94 – $816.85 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $203.97 | $10.00 – $476.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $402.75 | $12.00 – $476.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $402.75 | $12.00 – $476.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $203.97 | $10.00 – $476.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $402.75 | $12.00 – $476.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $402.75 | $8.00 – $476.98 |