Inj heparin, pfizer, 1000u at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$19.04
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.
$19.04
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.
$0.65 with BCBS vs $15.23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $0.65 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $0.71 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $0.89 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | HMO | $0.89 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | PPO | $0.89 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $2.48 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $2.48 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $2.48 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $2.48 | ↓ -87% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2.94 | ↓ -85% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $2.94 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $3.20 | ↓ -83% |
| United | SmallGroup | $3.47 | ↓ -82% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $3.47 | ↓ -82% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $3.47 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $5.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $6.08 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $6.08 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $6.66 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | CSN | $7.28 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $7.89 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $8.57 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | PPO | $9.39 | ↓ -51% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $10.15 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $15.23 | ↓ -20% |
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Inj heparin, pfizer, 1000u at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $24.28 | $12.03 – $54.67 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $24.28 | $12.03 – $54.67 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $18.86 | $0.65 – $7.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.65 – $7.28 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $36.60 | $1.26 – $51.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $36.60 | $1.26 – $54.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $36.60 | $1.26 – $45.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $36.60 | $1.26 – $51.85 |