Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray (4 or more views) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
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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.
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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.
$51.45 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $3,518.67 with Multiplan — 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 | $51.45 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $51.45 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $51.45 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $51.45 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $52.13 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $52.13 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $52.48 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $55.57 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $57.34 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $57.34 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $57.34 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $57.34 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $65.16 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $141.75 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $153.41 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $182.36 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $248.38 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $248.38 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $248.38 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $248.38 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $248.38 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $320.78 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $320.78 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $320.78 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $341.32 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $341.32 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $341.32 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $401.31 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $401.31 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $401.31 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $407.97 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $433.75 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $433.91 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $433.91 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $433.91 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $695.45 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,055.60 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,130.11 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $1,371.45 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $1,371.45 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,448.86 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,655.84 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,655.84 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,862.82 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,144.32 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $3,104.71 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $3,518.67 | — |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray (4 or more views) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $926.80 | $51.45 – $2,648.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $926.80 | $51.45 – $2,648.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $1,152.00 | $105.02 – $204.79 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $686.00 | $105.02 – $420.09 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $1,152.00 | $105.02 – $420.09 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $51.09 – $320.78 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $51.45 – $320.78 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $872.16 | $431.51 – $431.51 |