Pet image skull-thigh at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$10,257.31
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.
$10,257.31
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.
$615.44 with Superior Health Plan vs $23,770.96 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 | $615.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $615.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $615.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $615.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $615.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,480.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,480.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,480.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,480.34 | ↓ -86% |
| United | MGMCD | $1,509.95 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $1,598.77 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $1,638.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $1,638.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $1,638.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $1,638.29 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,723.23 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | MCD | $1,861.69 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,168.00 | ↓ -79% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $2,812.65 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $2,957.56 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $3,024.00 | ↓ -71% |
| United | SmallGroup | $3,330.77 | ↓ -68% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $3,330.77 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | BAV | $3,411.51 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,590.06 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $4,013.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $4,013.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $4,013.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,102.92 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | CSN | $4,254.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $4,267.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $4,267.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $4,267.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $4,609.00 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $4,615.79 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $5,020.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $5,020.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $5,020.00 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS | HMO | $5,186.05 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $5,423.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $5,423.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $5,467.15 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | PPO | $5,480.00 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $5,529.95 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS | PPO | $5,860.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | HMO | $23,770.96 | ↑ +132% |
| Humana | PPO | $23,770.96 | ↑ +132% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,108.75 | $662.75 – $6,025.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,108.75 | $482.00 – $6,025.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,459.56 – $2,751.22 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,480.34 – $2,957.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,658.45 | $958.87 – $6,987.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,795.47 | $1,364.64 – $5,994.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,658.45 | $1,364.64 – $6,987.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,658.45 | $1,458.59 – $6,987.68 |