Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced irradiated each unit at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$7,021.65
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.
$7,021.65
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.
$421.30 with Superior Health Plan vs $6,992.14 with Aetna — 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 | $421.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $421.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $421.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $421.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $421.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $483.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $483.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $483.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $483.98 | ↓ -93% |
| United | MGMCD | $493.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $522.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,039.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,123.46 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,144.53 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,179.64 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,263.90 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,334.11 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,369.22 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,579.87 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,614.98 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,643.07 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,790.52 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,916.91 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,457.58 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,808.66 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,808.66 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,159.74 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,742.54 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $3,896.20 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $5,181.46 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $5,181.46 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $5,181.46 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $5,504.80 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $5,504.80 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $5,504.80 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | HMO | $6,084.19 | ↓ -13% |
| Humana | PPO | $6,084.19 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $6,466.72 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $6,466.72 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $6,466.72 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $6,992.14 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $6,992.14 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $6,992.14 | ↓ -0% |
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Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced irradiated each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,373.40 | $94.00 – $3,924.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $3,190.00 | $483.98 – $6,084.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,373.40 | $88.00 – $3,924.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $483.98 – $6,084.19 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,387.23 | $364.83 – $1,748.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,481.28 | $284.40 – $2,072.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,206.13 | $221.31 – $1,748.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $2,182.95 | $483.98 – $6,084.19 |