Ghs pt - work hardening/int 2hrs at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$690.36
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.
$690.36
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.
$41.42 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,417.27 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 | CHIP | $41.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $41.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $41.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $41.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $41.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $89.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $89.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $89.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $89.75 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $115.98 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $134.62 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $186.40 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $219.26 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $241.63 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | BAV | $241.75 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $276.14 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | PPO | $302.65 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $302.65 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | HMO | $302.65 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $310.66 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $367.96 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $503.29 | ↓ -27% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $552.29 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $668.57 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $668.57 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $668.57 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $709.09 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $709.09 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $709.09 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $835.98 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $835.98 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $835.98 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $902.09 | ↑ +31% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $902.09 | ↑ +31% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $902.09 | ↑ +31% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,417.27 | ↑ +105% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,417.27 | ↑ +105% |
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Ghs pt - work hardening/int 2hrs at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $385.74 | $219.26 – $1,417.27 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $219.26 – $1,417.27 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $83.16 | $100.00 – $293.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $1,979.70 | $219.26 – $1,417.27 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $21.11 | $9.05 – $255.00 |
| Covenant Hospital Plainview | Plainview | $284.34 | $197.71 – $201.93 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $635.22 | $128.46 – $128.46 |
| Ascension Seton Cedar Park Hospital | Cedar Park | $120.47 | $160.23 – $388.86 |