Electrodes, pair at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
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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.
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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.
$8.40 with Superior Health Plan vs $133.15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $8.40 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $8.40 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $8.40 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $8.40 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $8.40 | — |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $16.96 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $17.31 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $17.31 | — |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $17.31 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $17.31 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $17.31 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $17.31 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $17.31 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $17.31 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $17.31 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $17.31 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $17.31 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $17.31 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $17.31 | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $17.40 | — |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $17.48 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $17.50 | — |
| United | MCR | $17.66 | — |
| WellCare | SNP | $17.83 | — |
| WellCare | PPO | $17.83 | — |
| WellCare | POS | $17.83 | — |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $17.83 | — |
| WellCare | PFFS | $17.83 | — |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $17.83 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $18.18 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $18.18 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $18.18 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $18.18 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $18.18 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $18.18 | — |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $18.18 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $18.18 | — |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $18.18 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $18.20 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $18.20 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $18.20 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $18.20 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $18.35 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $18.35 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $18.35 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $18.35 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $18.35 | — |
| Molina | MGMCR | $18.87 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $19.33 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $20.72 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $22.40 | — |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $22.50 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $23.52 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $24.13 | — |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $25.10 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $25.10 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $25.54 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $26.60 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $26.83 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $26.83 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $26.95 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $27.30 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $35.70 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $37.10 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $37.22 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $38.22 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $44.94 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $44.94 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $44.94 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $47.88 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $47.88 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $47.88 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $49.00 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $56.00 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $56.14 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $56.14 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $56.14 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $60.62 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $60.62 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $60.62 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $63.00 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $74.62 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $133.15 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $133.15 | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Electrodes, pair at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $16.96 – $37.22 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $16.23 – $16.23 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $16.96 – $37.22 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $16.96 – $37.22 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $16.96 – $37.22 |