Immune complex assay at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$775.45
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.
$775.45
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.
$20.47 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $413.31 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 | CHIP | $20.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $20.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $20.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $20.47 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $20.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $22.11 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $22.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $22.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $22.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $22.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $23.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| United | SmallGroup | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $24.37 | ↓ -97% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $24.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $24.61 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MCR | $24.86 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $25.10 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | POS | $25.10 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $25.10 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | PPO | $25.10 | ↓ -97% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $25.10 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | SNP | $25.10 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $25.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $25.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $25.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $25.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $25.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $25.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $26.38 | ↓ -97% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $26.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $26.56 | ↓ -97% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $31.68 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $35.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $35.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | EPO | $37.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | HMO | $37.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $46.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $46.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $46.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $46.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $46.53 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $49.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $52.40 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $54.35 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | HMO | $67.99 | ↓ -91% |
| Oscar | HIX | $70.43 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $72.87 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $73.12 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | PPO | $77.74 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $89.27 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | CSN | $100.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $108.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $118.71 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $118.71 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $118.71 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $126.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $126.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $126.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | PPO | $129.34 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $130.28 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $148.16 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $148.16 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $148.16 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $160.20 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $160.20 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $160.20 | ↓ -79% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $211.70 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $271.41 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | PPO | $325.57 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | HMO | $325.57 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $348.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $413.31 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Immune complex assay at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $882.00 | $20.06 – $100.37 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $667.50 | $20.47 – $100.37 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $141.71 | $10.00 – $155.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $174.76 | $12.00 – $186.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $163.65 | $12.00 – $155.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $141.71 | $10.00 – $155.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $174.76 | $12.00 – $186.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $174.76 | $8.00 – $186.06 |