Intracran angioplsty w/stent at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$38,698.99
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.
$38,698.99
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 $30,959.19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,390.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $5,030.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $5,030.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $5,030.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $5,030.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $5,841.00 | ↓ -85% |
| United | SmallGroup | $6,300.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $6,501.43 | ↓ -83% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $8,757.00 | ↓ -77% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9,000.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | CSN | $9,751.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $10,448.73 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $10,565.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $12,018.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $12,562.00 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $13,544.65 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $14,081.73 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $15,479.60 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | BAV | $15,509.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $16,207.00 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $17,414.55 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | PPO | $17,567.61 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $17,813.31 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | HMO | $18,059.01 | ↓ -53% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $20,626.56 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $30,959.19 | ↓ -20% |
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Intracran angioplsty w/stent at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,704.80 | $2,086.56 – $7,728.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,704.80 | $2,086.56 – $7,728.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $14,081.73 – $14,081.73 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $14,081.73 – $14,081.73 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $12,038.64 | $2,546.00 – $17,054.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $8,035.96 | $71.00 – $12,053.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $7,440.70 | $71.00 – $9,300.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $12,038.64 | $1,904.18 – $17,054.74 |