Pressure velocity wire add ves at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$7,204.38
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.
$7,204.38
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.
$432.26 with Superior Health Plan vs $5,763.50 with TriWest Healthcare Alliance — 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 | CHPFC | $432.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $432.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $432.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $432.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $432.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $936.57 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $936.57 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $936.57 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $936.57 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,078.51 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,078.51 | ↓ -85% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,174.31 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,210.34 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,296.79 | ↓ -82% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,620.99 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,657.01 | ↓ -77% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,685.82 | ↓ -77% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,837.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1,945.18 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,966.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,358.00 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,521.53 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,881.75 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,241.97 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,839.93 | ↓ -47% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $5,763.50 | ↓ -20% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $568.05 | $0.02 – $1,623.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,448.00 | $1,078.51 – $1,078.51 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $568.05 | $100.00 – $1,623.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,078.51 – $1,078.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,208.05 | $625.61 – $3,128.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,050.51 | $422.06 – $3,075.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,127.73 | $425.55 – $2,659.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,208.05 | $588.81 – $3,128.07 |