Microsatellite instability at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$92.31
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.
$92.31
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.
$5.54 with Superior Health Plan vs $3,867.93 with Humana — 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 | $5.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $5.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $5.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $5.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $5.54 | ↓ -94% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $15.51 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $25.20 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $32.31 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $36.92 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $41.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $49.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $292.79 | ↑ +217% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $292.79 | ↑ +217% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $292.79 | ↑ +217% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $292.79 | ↑ +217% |
| United | MGMCD | $298.65 | ↑ +224% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $316.21 | ↑ +243% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $322.07 | ↑ +249% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $322.07 | ↑ +249% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $322.07 | ↑ +249% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $322.07 | ↑ +249% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $341.59 | ↑ +270% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| United | SmallGroup | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $348.56 | ↑ +278% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $350.30 | ↑ +279% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $352.05 | ↑ +281% |
| United | MCR | $355.53 | ↑ +285% |
| WellCare | SNP | $359.02 | ↑ +289% |
| WellCare | PPO | $359.02 | ↑ +289% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $359.02 | ↑ +289% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $359.02 | ↑ +289% |
| WellCare | POS | $359.02 | ↑ +289% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $359.02 | ↑ +289% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Humana | MCD | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $365.99 | ↑ +296% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $369.47 | ↑ +300% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $369.47 | ↑ +300% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $369.47 | ↑ +300% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $369.47 | ↑ +300% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $369.47 | ↑ +300% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $379.93 | ↑ +312% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $453.13 | ↑ +391% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $505.41 | ↑ +448% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $505.41 | ↑ +448% |
| Superior | EPO | $540.27 | ↑ +485% |
| Superior | HMO | $540.27 | ↑ +485% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $704.09 | ↑ +663% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $749.40 | ↑ +712% |
| BCBS | BAV | $777.29 | ↑ +742% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $868.67 | ↑ +841% |
| BCBS | HMO | $972.48 | ↑ +953% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,007.34 | ↑ +991% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,042.19 | ↑ +1029% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,111.91 | ↑ +1105% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,276.87 | ↑ +1283% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,434.36 | ↑ +1454% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,553.61 | ↑ +1583% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,698.07 | ↑ +1740% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,698.07 | ↑ +1740% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,698.07 | ↑ +1740% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,804.04 | ↑ +1854% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,804.04 | ↑ +1854% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,804.04 | ↑ +1854% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,848.43 | ↑ +1902% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,119.28 | ↑ +2196% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,119.28 | ↑ +2196% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,119.28 | ↑ +2196% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,291.47 | ↑ +2382% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,291.47 | ↑ +2382% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,291.47 | ↑ +2382% |
| Humana | HMO | $3,867.93 | ↑ +4090% |
| Humana | PPO | $3,867.93 | ↑ +4090% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Microsatellite instability at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,461.00 | $286.93 – $1,434.36 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $292.79 – $1,434.36 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $603.68 | $10.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $719.78 | $12.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $522.84 | $12.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $603.68 | $10.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $719.78 | $12.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $719.78 | $8.00 – $836.54 |