Rbc deglycerolized each unit at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$2,416.52
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.
$2,416.52
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.
$144.99 with Superior Health Plan vs $4,098.88 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 | $144.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $144.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $144.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $144.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $144.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $244.66 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $244.66 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $244.66 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $244.66 | ↓ -90% |
| United | MGMCD | $249.55 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $264.23 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | CSN | $357.64 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $386.64 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $393.89 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $405.98 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $434.97 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $459.14 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $471.22 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $543.72 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $555.80 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $565.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $616.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $659.71 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $845.78 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $959.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $966.61 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $966.61 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,087.43 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,275.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,275.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,275.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,288.01 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,354.99 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,354.99 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,354.99 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,591.76 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,591.76 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,591.76 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,721.09 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,721.09 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,721.09 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,098.88 | ↑ +70% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,098.88 | ↑ +70% |
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Rbc deglycerolized each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $635.25 | $94.00 – $1,815.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $5,229.00 | $244.66 – $4,098.88 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $635.25 | $88.00 – $1,815.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $251.64 | $244.66 – $4,098.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $942.61 | $292.37 – $1,413.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - MCKINNEY | McKinney | $856.71 | $242.73 – $1,070.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - FRISCO AT PGA PARKWAY | Frisco | $856.71 | $292.37 – $1,070.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $897.73 | $224.43 – $1,346.59 |