Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$257.16
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.
$257.16
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.
$15.43 with Superior Health Plan vs $198.95 with Aetna — 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 | $15.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $15.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $15.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $15.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $15.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $33.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $33.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $33.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $33.43 | ↓ -87% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $33.84 | ↓ -87% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $33.84 | ↓ -87% |
| United | SmallGroup | $33.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $38.06 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $41.15 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $43.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $48.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $50.15 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $65.58 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $67.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $70.20 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | BAV | $74.55 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | PPO | $82.06 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $82.06 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $90.01 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | HMO | $93.27 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $99.96 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $102.86 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | PPO | $106.64 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $110.86 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $115.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $137.07 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $147.43 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $147.43 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $147.43 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $156.63 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $156.63 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $156.63 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $184.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $184.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $184.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $198.95 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $198.95 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $198.95 | ↓ -23% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $108.27 | $33.84 – $314.21 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $124.24 | $10.00 – $155.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $127.49 | $12.00 – $191.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $127.49 | $12.00 – $159.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $124.24 | $10.00 – $155.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $127.49 | $12.00 – $191.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $127.49 | $8.00 – $191.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $127.49 | $12.00 – $191.23 |