Nm imaging pulmonary ventilation/perfusion at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$6,864.01
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.
$6,864.01
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.
$327.11 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $3,658.52 with Coventry National First Health — 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $327.11 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $327.11 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $327.11 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $327.11 | ↓ -95% |
| United | MGMCD | $333.65 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $340.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $340.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $340.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $340.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $353.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | MCD | $386.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $411.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $411.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $411.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $411.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $411.84 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $516.31 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BAV | $654.19 | ↓ -90% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $929.86 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | HMO | $997.42 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,067.83 | ↓ -84% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -84% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,101.15 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,135.30 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,153.15 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,580.19 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,750.32 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,873.87 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,100.22 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,100.22 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,100.22 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,190.31 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,190.31 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,234.13 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,234.13 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,234.13 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,402.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,626.95 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,626.95 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,626.95 | ↓ -62% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,745.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,745.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,838.98 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,838.98 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,838.98 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,088.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,658.52 | ↓ -47% |
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Nm imaging pulmonary ventilation/perfusion at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,027.95 | $309.40 – $2,937.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $13,610.00 | $303.21 – $1,580.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,027.95 | $234.96 – $2,937.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $7,672.47 | $309.40 – $1,580.19 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,381.40 | $297.04 – $2,976.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,998.19 | $411.29 – $2,997.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,041.20 | $297.04 – $2,551.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,381.40 | $297.04 – $2,976.75 |