Monitor cable elec vad, rep at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$2,034.00
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.
$2,034.00
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.
$122.04 with Superior Health Plan vs $3,347.54 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 | $122.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $122.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $122.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $122.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $122.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $264.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $264.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $264.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $264.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $301.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $325.44 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $331.54 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $341.71 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $366.12 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $386.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $426.48 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $435.18 | ↓ -79% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $437.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $439.53 | ↓ -78% |
| United | MCR | $443.88 | ↓ -78% |
| WellCare | PPO | $448.24 | ↓ -78% |
| WellCare | SNP | $448.24 | ↓ -78% |
| WellCare | POS | $448.24 | ↓ -78% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $448.24 | ↓ -78% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $448.24 | ↓ -78% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $448.24 | ↓ -78% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $456.94 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | HMO | $457.65 | ↓ -78% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $461.29 | ↓ -77% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $461.29 | ↓ -77% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $461.29 | ↓ -77% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $461.29 | ↓ -77% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $461.29 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $467.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $474.35 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $475.96 | ↓ -77% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $565.73 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $631.01 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $631.01 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | HMO | $674.53 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | EPO | $674.53 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $711.90 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $915.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $935.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,084.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | PPO | $3,347.54 | ↑ +65% |
| Humana | HMO | $3,347.54 | ↑ +65% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,280.30 | $768.18 – $3,658.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,280.30 | $768.18 – $3,658.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $426.48 – $935.64 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $426.48 – $935.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $1,280.30 | $768.18 – $3,658.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $1,280.30 | $768.18 – $3,658.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $1,280.30 | $768.18 – $3,658.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $426.48 – $935.64 |