Perflutren lipid microspheres 1.1 mg/ml intravenous suspension at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$510.40
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$510.40
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.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$30.62 with Superior Health Plan vs $474.44 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $30.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $30.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $30.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $30.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $30.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $41.88 | ↓ -92% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $41.88 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $66.35 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $66.35 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $66.35 | ↓ -87% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $66.35 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $66.35 | ↓ -87% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $66.35 | ↓ -87% |
| United | SmallGroup | $66.35 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $85.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | CSN | $99.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.94 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | PPO | $128.54 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $137.81 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $178.64 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $186.87 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | BAV | $205.93 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $229.68 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | PPO | $257.42 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $257.42 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | HMO | $257.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $272.04 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $408.32 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | HMO | $474.44 | ↓ -7% |
| Humana | PPO | $474.44 | ↓ -7% |
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Perflutren lipid microspheres 1.1 mg/ml intravenous suspension at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $135.10 | $72.82 – $351.43 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $135.10 | $59.42 – $351.43 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $40.21 – $474.44 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $41.88 – $474.44 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $517.93 | $367.06 – $367.06 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $939.94 | $43.95 – $1,331.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $939.94 | $43.95 – $1,409.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $939.94 | $43.95 – $1,253.26 |