Mannitol 12.5 gm/50 ml inj at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$185.60
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.
$185.60
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.
$2.26 with Christus (USFHP) vs $148.48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2.26 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $2.26 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | CSN | $5.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $5.87 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $6.02 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $6.63 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | PPO | $6.99 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | PPO | $8.29 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $8.29 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | HMO | $8.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $11.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $11.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $11.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $11.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $11.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | HMO | $22.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | PPO | $22.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $24.13 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $24.13 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $24.13 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $24.13 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $31.18 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $32.48 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $32.48 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $36.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $50.11 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $64.96 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $83.52 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $98.92 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $148.48 | ↓ -20% |
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Mannitol 12.5 gm/50 ml inj at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $23.22 | $2.76 – $28.84 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $23.22 | $3.35 – $28.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $175.44 | $2.26 – $22.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $5.42 – $22.30 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $95.92 | $11.82 – $11.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $198.45 | $2.26 – $22.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $32.05 | $5.42 – $22.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $179.74 | $5.42 – $22.30 |