Exercise w/hemodynamic meas at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$8,783.87
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.
$8,783.87
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.
$382.87 with BCBS vs $7,027.10 with TriWest Healthcare Alliance — 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 | $382.87 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $422.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $527.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $527.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $527.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $527.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $527.03 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $528.49 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | PPO | $528.49 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $528.49 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,141.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,141.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,141.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,141.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,300.01 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,405.42 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,475.69 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,568.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,568.33 | ↓ -82% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,668.94 | ↓ -81% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | ↓ -81% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,712.85 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,239.89 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,327.73 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $2,371.64 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,398.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,819.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,819.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,819.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $3,004.08 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,004.08 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,004.08 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,074.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,513.55 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,522.33 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,522.33 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,522.33 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,803.42 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,803.42 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,803.42 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,952.74 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,681.80 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $7,027.10 | ↓ -20% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Exercise w/hemodynamic meas at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $705.25 | $100.00 – $2,015.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $705.25 | $100.00 – $2,015.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $382.87 – $1,568.33 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $382.87 – $1,568.33 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,285.01 | $502.31 – $13,331.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,481.20 | $304.88 – $13,331.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,311.85 | $262.37 – $13,331.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,285.01 | $382.87 – $16,180.00 |