Hc nm kidney imaging with flow at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$8,305.13
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.
$8,305.13
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.
$216.51 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $4,426.63 with Coventry National First Health — 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 | $216.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $216.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $216.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $216.51 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $220.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $232.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $232.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $232.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $232.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $233.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $263.98 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $353.30 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $447.65 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $498.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $498.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $498.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $498.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $498.31 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $682.52 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $730.69 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | PPO | $776.86 | ↓ -91% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,112.41 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,395.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,478.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,478.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,478.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,572.77 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,572.77 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,572.77 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,849.30 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,849.30 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,849.30 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,998.57 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,998.57 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,998.57 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,117.81 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,267.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,650.17 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,650.17 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,906.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,322.05 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,322.05 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,737.31 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,426.63 | ↓ -47% |
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Hc nm kidney imaging with flow at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,577.80 | $211.18 – $4,508.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,577.80 | $211.18 – $4,508.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $211.18 – $1,112.41 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $651.59 | $205.83 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $972.03 | $200.08 – $1,458.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,008.39 | $205.83 – $1,260.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $651.59 | $205.83 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $972.03 | $220.24 – $1,458.05 |