Esophageal recording at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$10,799.87
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.
$10,799.87
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.
$1,403.98 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $43,890.00 with Curative Administrators — 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 | $1,403.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,403.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,403.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,403.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,598.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,727.98 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,814.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,051.98 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $2,310.89 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | BAV | $2,547.90 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,861.97 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $3,189.82 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | HMO | $3,189.82 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | PPO | $3,189.82 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $3,466.76 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $3,466.76 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $3,466.76 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,693.56 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $3,693.56 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,693.56 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,779.95 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,319.95 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $4,330.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $4,330.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $4,330.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $4,676.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $4,676.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $4,676.34 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $4,859.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $5,591.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $5,591.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $5,591.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $5,591.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $5,591.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $5,756.33 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $10,106.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | PPO | $10,106.00 | ↓ -6% |
| United | SmallGroup | $15,400.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $17,742.00 | ↑ +64% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $21,231.00 | ↑ +97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22,000.00 | ↑ +104% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $29,288.00 | ↑ +171% |
| Oscar | HIX | $37,284.00 | ↑ +245% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $43,890.00 | ↑ +306% |
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Esophageal recording at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $2,310.89 – $2,310.89 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2,310.89 – $2,310.89 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $10,705.42 | $2,310.89 – $2,310.89 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $5,148.49 | $2,310.89 – $2,310.89 |
| Ascension Providence | Waco | $1,710.81 | $1,639.31 – $2,439.27 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $13,038.15 | $1,353.94 – $2,761.00 |
| Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $1,980.36 | $816.45 – $4,098.37 |
| Ascension Seton Northwest (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $1,980.36 | $816.45 – $4,098.37 |