Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe mycobacteria tuberculosis at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$685.77
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.
$685.77
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.
$35.01 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $468.83 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $35.01 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $35.01 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $35.01 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $35.01 | ↓ -95% |
| United | MGMCD | $35.71 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $37.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $38.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $38.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $38.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $38.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $40.85 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $41.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $41.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $41.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $41.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $41.15 | ↓ -94% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $41.68 | ↓ -94% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $41.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $42.10 | ↓ -94% |
| United | MCR | $42.51 | ↓ -94% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $42.93 | ↓ -94% |
| WellCare | SNP | $42.93 | ↓ -94% |
| WellCare | PPO | $42.93 | ↓ -94% |
| WellCare | POS | $42.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $42.93 | ↓ -94% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $42.93 | ↓ -94% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | MCD | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $43.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $44.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $44.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $44.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $44.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $44.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $45.11 | ↓ -93% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $45.11 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $45.43 | ↓ -93% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $54.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $60.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $60.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | HMO | $64.60 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | EPO | $64.60 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $84.19 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $89.61 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | BAV | $92.95 | ↓ -86% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $105.29 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $115.21 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $116.29 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $120.46 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $124.62 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | PPO | $132.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $152.70 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | CSN | $171.47 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $185.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $187.22 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $203.07 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $203.07 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $203.07 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $215.74 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $215.74 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $215.74 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $220.97 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $240.02 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $253.44 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $253.44 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $253.44 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $274.03 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $274.03 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $274.03 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $308.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $365.52 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $468.83 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | PPO | $468.83 | ↓ -32% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe mycobacteria tuberculosis at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $80.85 | $30.01 – $231.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,908.00 | $34.31 – $171.47 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $80.85 | $30.01 – $231.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $591.19 | $35.01 – $171.47 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $345.17 | $10.00 – $299.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $328.73 | $12.00 – $358.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $328.73 | $12.00 – $299.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $345.17 | $10.00 – $299.01 |