Ecg < 30 days transmission & analysis at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$1,698.30
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.
$1,698.30
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.
$101.90 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,594.63 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 | $101.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $101.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $101.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $101.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $101.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $220.78 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $220.78 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $220.78 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $220.78 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $251.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $271.73 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $285.31 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $322.68 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $331.17 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $398.03 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $433.07 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BAV | $438.86 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $450.05 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $463.64 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $545.15 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $545.15 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $545.15 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $549.42 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | PPO | $549.42 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | HMO | $549.42 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $580.82 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $580.82 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $580.82 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $594.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $679.32 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $679.32 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $681.02 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $681.02 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $681.02 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $735.36 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $735.36 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $735.36 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $764.24 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $905.19 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,594.63 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,594.63 | ↓ -6% |
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Ecg < 30 days transmission & analysis at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $398.03 – $1,594.63 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $398.03 – $1,594.63 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $714.43 | $147.05 – $1,071.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $644.32 | $90.72 – $917.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $714.43 | $90.72 – $1,071.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $714.43 | $239.80 – $1,071.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $644.32 | $90.72 – $966.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $714.43 | $90.72 – $917.00 |