#mec-opiates at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$583.17
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.
$583.17
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 $466.54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $0.05 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $0.07 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $0.07 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $0.07 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $0.09 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $0.09 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $0.09 | ↓ -100% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $13.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $13.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $13.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $13.36 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $13.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $14.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $14.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $14.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $14.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $14.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $16.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $34.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $34.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $34.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $34.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $34.99 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $95.06 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $97.97 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | CSN | $98.98 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $104.97 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.21 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $113.72 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | PPO | $127.56 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | HMO | $131.21 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $134.13 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $136.46 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $148.71 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $157.46 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $159.21 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $160.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | HMO | $160.79 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $204.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $233.27 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $262.43 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $310.83 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $466.54 | ↓ -20% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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#mec-opiates at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $21.00 | $0.05 – $98.98 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.05 – $98.98 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $76.46 | $3.00 – $13.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $62.44 | $1.03 – $7.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $59.46 | $3.03 – $13.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $76.46 | $3.92 – $13.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $62.44 | $3.03 – $12.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $62.44 | $4.58 – $13.36 |