Epoetin alfa-epbx 40,000 unit/ml injection solution 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.
$5.71 with Superior Health Plan vs $113.86 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 | $5.71 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $5.71 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $5.71 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $5.71 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $5.71 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $7.07 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $7.07 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $12.37 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $12.37 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $12.37 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $12.37 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $12.49 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $12.49 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $12.49 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $15.99 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $18.32 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $19.83 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $21.01 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $23.16 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $23.62 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $28.94 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $28.94 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $28.94 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $33.31 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $42.83 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $50.73 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $113.86 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $113.86 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | not published by hospital | — |
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Epoetin alfa-epbx 40,000 unit/ml injection solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $7.57 – $113.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $7.07 – $113.86 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $779.13 | $41.27 – $41.27 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $2,721.47 | $26.48 – $42.80 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $382.79 | $10.74 – $459.32 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $397.16 | $10.97 – $103.99 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston | Livingston | $382.79 | $10.74 – $459.32 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $2,721.47 | $7.88 – $46.64 |