Hemodialysis one evaluation at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$2,707.09
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.
$2,707.09
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.
$162.43 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,442.88 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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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $162.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $162.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $162.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $162.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $162.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $351.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $351.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $351.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $351.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $400.65 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $433.13 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $441.26 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $454.79 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $487.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $514.35 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $527.88 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $609.10 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $622.63 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $633.46 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $690.31 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | HMO | $705.18 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | PPO | $705.18 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $717.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $739.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $868.98 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $868.98 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $868.98 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $925.82 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $925.82 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $925.82 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $947.48 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,082.84 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,082.84 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,085.54 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,085.54 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,085.54 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,172.17 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,172.17 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,172.17 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,218.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,442.88 | ↓ -47% |
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Hemodialysis one evaluation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,450.40 | $100.00 – $4,144.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,450.40 | $100.00 – $4,144.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $4,226.44 | $705.18 – $705.18 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $705.18 – $705.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,147.82 | $608.55 – $2,684.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,671.91 | $344.14 – $2,507.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,364.27 | $272.85 – $1,731.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,147.82 | $572.75 – $2,684.78 |