Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray 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.
$40.10 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $791.07 with Coventry National First Health — 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 | $40.10 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $40.10 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $40.10 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $40.10 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $40.90 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $43.31 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $44.11 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $44.11 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $44.11 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $44.11 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $50.13 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $89.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $89.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $89.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $89.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $89.05 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $106.54 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $115.30 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $137.06 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $173.04 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $229.98 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $229.98 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $229.98 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $244.64 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $244.64 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $244.64 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $249.34 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $287.66 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $287.66 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $287.66 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $310.88 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $310.88 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $310.88 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $378.47 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $405.18 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $407.97 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $415.29 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $415.29 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $433.75 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $519.46 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $593.67 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $593.67 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $667.88 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $791.07 | — |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $713.65 | $40.10 – $2,039.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $713.65 | $40.10 – $2,039.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $39.30 – $197.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $40.10 – $197.26 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $620.07 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $384.07 | $79.05 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $474.69 | $40.10 – $593.36 |