Platelet pheresis each unit at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$3,569.10
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.
$3,569.10
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.
$214.15 with Superior Health Plan vs $4,102.49 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 | STARPLUS | $214.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $214.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $214.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $214.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $214.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $343.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $343.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $343.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $343.82 | ↓ -90% |
| United | MGMCD | $350.70 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $371.33 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | CSN | $528.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $571.06 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $581.76 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $599.61 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $642.44 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $678.13 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $695.97 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $803.05 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $820.89 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $835.17 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $910.12 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $974.36 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,249.18 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,427.64 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,427.64 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,606.10 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,902.33 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,195.12 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,919.24 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,919.24 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,919.24 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $3,101.41 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,101.41 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,101.41 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,643.36 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,643.36 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,643.36 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,939.38 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,939.38 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,939.38 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,102.49 | ↑ +15% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,102.49 | ↑ +15% |
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Platelet pheresis each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $657.30 | $94.00 – $1,878.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,818.00 | $343.82 – $4,102.49 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $657.30 | $88.00 – $1,878.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $741.42 | $343.82 – $4,102.49 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,260.36 | $288.60 – $1,575.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,260.36 | $259.42 – $1,890.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,326.70 | $265.34 – $1,658.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,260.36 | $288.60 – $1,575.45 |