MRI fetal ea addl gestation at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$20,007.30
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.
$20,007.30
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.
$207.83 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $16,005.84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $207.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $207.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $207.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $207.83 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $211.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $224.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $224.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $224.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $224.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $224.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $255.61 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $306.05 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BAV | $353.03 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | HMO | $536.66 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $572.25 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | PPO | $606.41 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1,200.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1,200.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1,200.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1,200.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1,200.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,210.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,301.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,605.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,605.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,605.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,706.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,706.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,706.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,007.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,007.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,007.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,127.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,168.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,168.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,304.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,546.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,546.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,739.00 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $3,361.23 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $5,401.97 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $7,002.56 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $8,002.92 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $9,003.28 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $10,663.89 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $16,005.84 | ↓ -20% |
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MRI fetal ea addl gestation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $576.10 | $170.82 – $1,646.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $576.10 | $131.68 – $1,646.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $200.40 – $284.70 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $204.49 – $306.05 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $477.93 | $204.49 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $654.40 | $134.70 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $577.07 | $204.49 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $477.93 | $204.49 – $2,149.00 |