Insert hepatic shunt (tips) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$37,351.79
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$37,351.79
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$948.00 with Superior Health Plan vs $29,881.43 with TriWest Healthcare Alliance — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,854.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,390.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $3,791.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $3,791.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $4,027.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $4,027.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $4,278.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $4,546.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $4,739.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $4,739.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $4,855.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $4,855.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $4,855.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $4,855.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $5,119.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $5,119.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $5,347.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $5,777.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $5,841.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $6,275.10 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $7,862.08 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | BAV | $8,659.44 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $9,808.31 | ↓ -74% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $9,875.00 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $9,945.49 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | HMO | $10,082.67 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $10,084.98 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | CSN | $10,740.00 | ↓ -71% |
| United | SmallGroup | $11,200.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $11,636.00 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $13,073.13 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | PPO | $13,835.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $14,940.72 | ↓ -60% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $15,678.00 | ↓ -58% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $16,000.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $16,207.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $16,808.31 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $19,908.50 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $29,881.43 | ↓ -20% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Insert hepatic shunt (tips) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $4,767.70 | $3,677.94 – $13,622.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $4,767.70 | $3,677.94 – $13,622.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $7,862.08 – $7,862.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $7,862.08 – $7,862.08 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $9,754.48 | $1,448.96 – $39,592.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,699.59 | $71.00 – $5,549.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,180.79 | $71.00 – $19,335.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $9,754.48 | $2,601.20 – $39,592.62 |