External chromosome analysis 20-25 cells at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$1,192.19
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.
$1,192.19
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.
$71.53 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,664.98 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 | $71.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $71.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $71.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $71.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $71.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $121.47 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $121.47 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $121.47 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $121.47 | ↓ -90% |
| United | MGMCD | $123.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $131.19 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $133.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $133.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $133.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $133.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $141.72 | ↓ -88% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| United | SmallGroup | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $144.61 | ↓ -88% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $145.33 | ↓ -88% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $146.06 | ↓ -88% |
| United | MCR | $147.50 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $148.95 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | SNP | $148.95 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | PPO | $148.95 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | POS | $148.95 | ↓ -88% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $148.95 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $148.95 | ↓ -88% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | MCD | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $151.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $153.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $153.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $153.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $153.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $153.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $156.51 | ↓ -87% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $156.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $157.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $187.99 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $200.29 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $209.68 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $209.68 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | HMO | $224.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | EPO | $224.15 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $292.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $310.91 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BAV | $322.48 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $325.47 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $373.93 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | HMO | $403.46 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $417.27 | ↓ -65% |
| Oscar | HIX | $417.92 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $432.38 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | PPO | $461.31 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $529.72 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $536.49 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | CSN | $595.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $635.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $644.69 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $704.46 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $704.46 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $704.46 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $748.42 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $748.42 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $748.42 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | PPO | $767.03 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $879.20 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $879.20 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $879.20 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $950.64 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $950.64 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $950.64 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,664.98 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,664.98 | ↑ +40% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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External chromosome analysis 20-25 cells at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $321.30 | $104.12 – $918.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $608.00 | $119.04 – $595.20 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $321.30 | $104.12 – $918.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $121.47 – $595.20 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $558.82 | $35.00 – $350.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $632.62 | $36.00 – $420.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $525.00 | $36.00 – $350.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $558.82 | $35.00 – $350.39 |