Mayo alkaloids definitive assay nicotine/cotinine 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.
$0.05 with Aetna vs $395.63 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 |
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| Aetna | QHPExchange | $0.05 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $0.06 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $0.06 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $0.06 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $0.07 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $0.07 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $0.07 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $0.08 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $0.08 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $0.08 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $0.09 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $0.09 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $0.09 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $17.09 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $17.09 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $17.09 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $17.09 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $17.43 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $18.46 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $18.80 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $18.80 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $18.80 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $18.80 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $21.36 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $29.67 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $29.67 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $29.67 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $29.67 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $29.67 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $80.61 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $83.08 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $89.02 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $96.44 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $98.98 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.21 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $111.27 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $113.74 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $115.72 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $126.11 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $127.56 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $133.53 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $135.01 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $173.09 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $197.82 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $208.28 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $208.28 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $222.54 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $263.59 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $395.63 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Mayo alkaloids definitive assay nicotine/cotinine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $864.00 | $0.05 – $98.98 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.05 – $98.98 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $83.43 | $10.00 – $42.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $94.61 | $6.17 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $83.43 | $12.00 – $37.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $83.43 | $10.00 – $42.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $94.61 | $12.00 – $45.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $94.61 | $8.00 – $45.00 |