Radiation therapy dose plan at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$348.60
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.
$348.60
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.
$45.32 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $308.33 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $45.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $45.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $45.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $45.32 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $58.56 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $63.32 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $67.98 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | BAV | $69.89 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $88.89 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $95.17 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $103.80 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $103.80 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | HMO | $103.80 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $111.24 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $111.24 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $122.01 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $139.44 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $139.44 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $156.87 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $171.62 | ↓ -51% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $185.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $228.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $228.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $228.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $242.64 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $242.64 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $242.64 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $285.30 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $285.30 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $285.30 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $308.33 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $308.33 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $308.33 | ↓ -12% |
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Radiation therapy dose plan at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,705.90 | $41.52 – $4,874.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $3,026.00 | $63.32 – $614.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,705.90 | $50.52 – $4,874.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $63.32 – $614.19 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $473.01 | $53.98 – $591.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $619.25 | $127.46 – $928.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $509.00 | $101.80 – $636.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $473.01 | $33.22 – $591.26 |