Immunology procedure at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$924.47
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.
$924.47
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.
$55.47 with Superior Health Plan vs $739.58 with TriWest Healthcare Alliance — 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 | $55.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $55.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $55.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $55.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $55.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | CSN | $99.55 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $120.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $120.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $120.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $120.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | PPO | $128.28 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $150.69 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $155.31 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $166.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $180.27 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $208.01 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $212.63 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $216.33 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $235.74 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $244.98 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $249.61 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $252.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $295.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $295.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $296.75 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $296.75 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $296.75 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $316.17 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $316.17 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $316.17 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $323.56 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $369.79 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $370.71 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $370.71 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $370.71 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $400.30 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $400.30 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $400.30 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $416.01 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $492.74 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $739.58 | ↓ -20% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Immunology procedure at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $305.00 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $796.22 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $289.39 | $10.00 – $107.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $321.98 | $12.00 – $114.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $312.60 | $12.00 – $95.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $289.39 | $10.00 – $107.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $321.98 | $12.00 – $114.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $321.98 | $8.00 – $114.31 |