Immunofluorescence per specimen each additional single antibody stain at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$592.14
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.
$592.14
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.
$35.53 with Superior Health Plan vs $615.36 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $35.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $35.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $35.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $35.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $35.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $76.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $76.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $76.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $76.98 | ↓ -87% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $81.30 | ↓ -86% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $81.30 | ↓ -86% |
| United | SmallGroup | $81.30 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $98.27 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $99.48 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $108.49 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $115.47 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $135.73 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $145.46 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $151.00 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | PPO | $155.19 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $159.88 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $161.65 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $207.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $236.86 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $266.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $315.61 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $342.89 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | CSN | $366.32 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $396.77 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | HMO | $442.11 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | PPO | $442.11 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $456.01 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $456.01 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $456.01 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | PPO | $472.07 | ↓ -20% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $473.71 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $484.46 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $484.46 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $484.46 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $569.12 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $569.12 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $569.12 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $615.36 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $615.36 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $615.36 | ↑ +4% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Immunofluorescence per specimen each additional single antibody stain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $277.55 | $58.38 – $793.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $664.00 | $81.30 – $442.11 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $277.55 | $65.34 – $793.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $81.30 – $442.11 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,007.00 | $13.80 – $118.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,007.00 | $10.03 – $73.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,007.00 | $9.74 – $251.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,007.00 | $12.99 – $177.09 |