Ins cath ren art 1st bi at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$10,816.79
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.
$10,816.79
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.
$948.00 with Superior Health Plan vs $13,835.00 with Cigna — 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 | $948.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,406.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,406.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,406.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,406.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,579.00 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,817.22 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,098.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,098.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,229.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,229.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,299.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,444.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,623.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,623.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,832.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,832.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,876.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,106.00 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,785.88 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,326.72 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | SmallGroup | $4,760.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $4,867.56 | ↓ -55% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $4,988.00 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $5,681.12 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | BAV | $5,736.55 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | HMO | $5,736.55 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $5,765.35 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $5,849.00 | ↓ -46% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5,951.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $6,077.00 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $6,651.07 | ↓ -39% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $6,800.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Oscar | HIX | $7,014.00 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | PPO | $7,565.59 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | CSN | $10,740.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $11,636.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | PPO | $13,835.00 | ↑ +28% |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $6,549.90 | $2,058.54 – $18,714.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $6,549.90 | $1,497.12 – $18,714.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $8,020.43 | $4,822.03 – $4,822.03 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3,187.73 – $4,822.03 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $6,115.51 | $1,732.73 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $6,815.98 | $71.00 – $10,223.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $5,291.97 | $71.00 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $6,115.51 | $1,630.80 – $7,896.23 |