Microdissection manual at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$575.00
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.
$575.00
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.
$34.50 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,284.01 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $34.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $34.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $34.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $34.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $34.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $74.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $74.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $74.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $74.75 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $96.60 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $112.13 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $146.63 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $155.25 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $156.97 | ↓ -73% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $180.05 | ↓ -69% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $180.05 | ↓ -69% |
| United | SmallGroup | $180.05 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $201.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $230.00 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $258.75 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $262.80 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | BAV | $290.12 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $306.48 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | HMO | $362.98 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $389.00 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS | PPO | $415.02 | ↓ -28% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $460.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $715.48 | ↑ +24% |
| Cigna | CSN | $741.86 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $803.54 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $951.50 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $951.50 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $951.50 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna | PPO | $956.02 | ↑ +66% |
| Humana | PPO | $999.98 | ↑ +74% |
| Humana | HMO | $999.98 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,010.88 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,010.88 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,010.88 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,187.52 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,187.52 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,187.52 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,284.01 | ↑ +123% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,284.01 | ↑ +123% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,284.01 | ↑ +123% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Microdissection manual at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $210.00 | $147.96 – $600.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,749.00 | $180.05 – $999.98 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $210.00 | $147.96 – $600.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $180.05 – $999.98 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $388.07 | $35.00 – $317.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $350.63 | $30.47 – $222.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $350.63 | $29.60 – $672.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $388.07 | $35.00 – $473.56 |