Intra-atrial recording at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$12,960.92
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.
$12,960.92
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.
$1,684.92 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $43,890.00 with Curative Administrators — 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 | CHIPPerinatal | $1,684.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,684.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,684.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,684.92 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $2,112.63 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,177.43 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $2,332.97 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | HMO | $2,916.21 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2,981.01 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,536.32 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $5,184.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $5,591.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $5,591.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $5,591.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $5,591.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $5,591.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $5,832.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $6,908.17 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | PPO | $10,106.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | HMO | $10,106.00 | ↓ -22% |
| United | SmallGroup | $15,400.00 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS | PPO | $16,067.99 | ↑ +24% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $17,742.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $21,231.00 | ↑ +64% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22,000.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $29,288.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Oscar | HIX | $37,284.00 | ↑ +188% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $43,890.00 | ↑ +239% |
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Intra-atrial recording at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $6,157.90 | $4,750.38 – $17,594.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $6,157.90 | $4,750.38 – $17,594.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $11,365.80 | $10,241.14 – $10,241.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $10,241.14 – $10,241.14 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,252.30 | $1,488.15 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,501.94 | $720.82 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,251.46 | $850.29 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,252.30 | $1,400.61 – $18,500.61 |