Parathyroid planar imaging at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$7,185.14
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.
$7,185.14
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.
$290.03 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $3,829.68 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 | $290.03 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $290.03 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $290.03 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $290.03 | ↓ -96% |
| United | MGMCD | $295.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $301.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $301.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $301.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $301.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $313.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MCD | $342.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $431.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $431.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $431.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $431.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $431.11 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $475.71 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $602.75 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -88% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | HMO | $918.99 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $983.86 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,046.02 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,207.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,431.08 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,832.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,902.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,902.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,902.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,961.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,023.32 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,023.32 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,023.32 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,292.78 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,292.78 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,379.07 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,379.07 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,379.07 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,514.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,571.09 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,571.09 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,571.09 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,874.06 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,874.06 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,233.31 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,829.68 | ↓ -47% |
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Parathyroid planar imaging at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $430.85 | $135.41 – $1,231.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $430.85 | $98.48 – $1,231.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $8,031.99 | $273.65 – $1,431.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $268.18 – $1,431.08 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,522.84 | $265.30 – $1,903.55 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,435.33 | $295.44 – $2,153.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,356.79 | $265.30 – $1,695.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,522.84 | $265.30 – $1,903.55 |