Nushield 1 square cm at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$2,571.00
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.
$2,571.00
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.
$92.65 with Christus (USFHP) vs $2,056.80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $92.65 | ↓ -96% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $92.65 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $154.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $154.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $154.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $154.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $154.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $209.78 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $209.78 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $209.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $334.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $334.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $334.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $334.23 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $419.07 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $431.93 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $462.78 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | HMO | $578.48 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $591.33 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $601.61 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $694.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $820.41 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $820.41 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $899.85 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,156.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,282.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,370.34 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,388.60 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,653.60 | ↓ -36% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $2,056.80 | ↓ -20% |
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Nushield 1 square cm at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $302.05 | $164.38 – $863.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $302.05 | $134.13 – $863.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $209.78 – $1,282.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $92.65 – $1,282.60 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $5,532.28 | $372.36 – $1,855.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $508.26 | $134.13 – $918.23 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $931.43 | $41.53 – $266.95 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $302.05 | $134.13 – $863.00 |