Fl exam g/colon tube w contrast at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$615.45
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.
$615.45
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.
$80.01 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $5,841.00 with Healthcare Highways — 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 | $80.01 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $80.01 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $80.01 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $80.01 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $103.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $168.02 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $215.41 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $246.18 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $276.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $328.03 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $477.73 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS | BAV | $482.39 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS | HMO | $482.39 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $559.30 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS | PPO | $636.20 | ↑ +3% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↑ +54% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,430.00 | ↑ +132% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↑ +160% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↑ +177% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,899.00 | ↑ +209% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,899.00 | ↑ +209% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,017.00 | ↑ +228% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,017.00 | ↑ +228% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,181.00 | ↑ +254% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,317.00 | ↑ +276% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,358.00 | ↑ +283% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,374.00 | ↑ +286% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,374.00 | ↑ +286% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,518.00 | ↑ +309% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,564.00 | ↑ +317% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,564.00 | ↑ +317% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,727.00 | ↑ +343% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,728.00 | ↑ +343% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,947.00 | ↑ +379% |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,244.00 | ↑ +427% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↑ +662% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↑ +662% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $5,841.00 | ↑ +849% |
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Fl exam g/colon tube w contrast at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $220.85 | $170.37 – $631.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,218.00 | $240.89 – $405.49 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $220.85 | $170.37 – $631.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $405.49 – $405.49 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,253.36 | $291.30 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $627.02 | $111.00 – $783.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $696.17 | $71.00 – $1,044.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $478.87 | $71.00 – $607.02 |