In situ hybridization per specimen initial single probe stain at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$2,385.69
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.
$2,385.69
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.
$143.14 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,391.56 with Humana — 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 | $143.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $143.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $143.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $143.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $143.14 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $149.16 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $149.16 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $149.16 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $289.87 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $310.14 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $310.14 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $310.14 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $310.14 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | BAV | $320.00 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | HMO | $400.37 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $400.80 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $429.07 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | PPO | $457.76 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $465.21 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $524.08 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | CSN | $575.15 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $608.35 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $622.97 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $651.29 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $696.96 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $696.96 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $696.96 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $740.45 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $740.45 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $740.45 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $741.19 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $834.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $869.84 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $869.84 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $869.84 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $940.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $940.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $940.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $954.28 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,073.56 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,271.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,391.56 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,391.56 | ↓ -42% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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In situ hybridization per specimen initial single probe stain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $291.90 | $138.52 – $834.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $664.00 | $149.16 – $1,391.56 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $291.90 | $193.77 – $834.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $156.60 | $149.16 – $1,391.56 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $373.43 | $35.00 – $466.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $352.98 | $36.00 – $529.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $296.45 | $36.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $373.43 | $35.00 – $466.79 |