Nerve teasing preparations at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$2,533.40
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,533.40
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$152.00 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,003.96 with BCBS — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | $152.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $152.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $152.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $152.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $152.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $329.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $329.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $329.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $329.34 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $425.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $426.23 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $494.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | CSN | $499.29 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $540.80 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $566.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $566.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $566.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $602.21 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $602.21 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $602.21 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | PPO | $643.43 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $646.02 | ↓ -74% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $656.15 | ↓ -74% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $656.15 | ↓ -74% |
| United | SmallGroup | $656.15 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $691.62 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $707.44 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $707.44 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $707.44 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $764.92 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $764.92 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $764.92 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $886.69 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | HMO | $989.06 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | PPO | $989.06 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,013.36 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,140.03 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,268.96 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,350.30 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,400.89 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,752.68 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,878.32 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,003.96 | ↓ -21% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Nerve teasing preparations at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,832.00 | $426.23 – $1,268.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $426.23 – $1,268.96 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $566.86 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $434.87 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $434.87 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $566.86 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $434.87 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $434.87 | $26.00 – $2,130.15 |