Gastric emptying imag study at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$6,798.20
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.
$6,798.20
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.
$407.89 with Superior Health Plan vs $3,932.64 with Aetna — 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 | STARKids | $407.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $407.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $407.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $407.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $407.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $427.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $427.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $427.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $427.69 | ↓ -94% |
| United | MGMCD | $436.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $455.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $455.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $455.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $455.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $461.91 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MCD | $517.91 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $765.58 | ↓ -89% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $929.86 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BAV | $970.03 | ↓ -86% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -84% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,101.15 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,142.10 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,478.97 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,583.36 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,683.41 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,733.54 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,855.91 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,169.31 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,169.31 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,188.92 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,379.37 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,719.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,719.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,909.29 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,909.29 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,909.29 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,059.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,094.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,094.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $3,094.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,623.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,638.93 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,638.93 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,638.93 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,932.64 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,932.64 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,932.64 | ↓ -42% |
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Gastric emptying imag study at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $13,942.00 | $406.04 – $2,188.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $7,601.13 | $414.33 – $2,188.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,770.81 | $364.49 – $2,656.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,770.81 | $397.61 – $2,213.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,770.81 | $425.44 – $2,656.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,770.81 | $397.61 – $2,656.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,770.81 | $397.61 – $2,656.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $1,770.81 | $397.61 – $2,213.51 |