Ost pch drain for barrier fl at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$29.00
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.
$29.00
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.
$1.74 with Superior Health Plan vs $39.25 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 | STARKids | $1.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $3.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $3.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $3.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $3.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $4.29 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $4.64 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4.87 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $5.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $5.10 | ↓ -82% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $5.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $5.15 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $5.16 | ↓ -82% |
| United | MCR | $5.20 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | PPO | $5.25 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | SNP | $5.25 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | POS | $5.25 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $5.25 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $5.25 | ↓ -82% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $5.25 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $5.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $5.41 | ↓ -81% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $5.41 | ↓ -81% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $5.41 | ↓ -81% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $5.41 | ↓ -81% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $5.41 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | PPO | $5.51 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $5.56 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | BAV | $5.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $6.63 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | HMO | $7.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $7.39 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $7.39 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $7.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior | EPO | $7.90 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | HMO | $7.90 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $7.95 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $10.15 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $10.96 | ↓ -62% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $13.05 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $15.46 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | HMO | $39.25 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | PPO | $39.25 | ↑ +35% |
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Ost pch drain for barrier fl at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $5.00 – $10.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $5.00 – $10.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $76.00 | $5.00 – $10.96 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $4.78 – $4.78 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $5.00 – $10.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $5.00 – $10.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $5.00 – $10.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $5.00 – $10.96 |