Evaluation heart device at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$9,769.71
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.
$9,769.71
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.
$438.52 with BCBS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $438.52 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $483.49 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | PPO | $605.30 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $605.30 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $605.30 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,270.06 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,270.06 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,270.06 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,270.06 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,445.92 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,563.15 | ↓ -84% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,641.31 | ↓ -83% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,856.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,905.09 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,588.97 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $2,637.82 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $3,136.08 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $3,136.08 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $3,136.08 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,341.24 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $3,341.24 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,341.24 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,419.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,907.88 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,917.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,917.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,917.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $4,230.28 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $4,230.28 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $4,230.28 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $4,396.37 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $5,207.26 | ↓ -47% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $5,591.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $5,591.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $5,591.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $5,591.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $5,591.00 | ↓ -43% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $7,815.77 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | PPO | $10,106.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Humana | HMO | $10,106.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $21,231.00 | ↑ +117% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $29,288.00 | ↑ +200% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $43,890.00 | ↑ +349% |
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Evaluation heart device at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,897.35 | $100.00 – $5,421.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $4,825.00 | $438.52 – $438.52 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,897.35 | $100.00 – $5,421.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $11,246.06 | $438.52 – $438.52 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,469.10 | $575.32 – $4,914.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,221.39 | $565.95 – $4,832.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,368.17 | $473.63 – $2,960.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,469.10 | $438.52 – $4,914.56 |