Rmvl sq defib electrode at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$36,039.40
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.
$36,039.40
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.
$948.00 with Superior Health Plan vs $95,000.00 with United — 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 | STAR | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $948.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,944.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,580.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,580.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,742.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,742.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,986.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $3,174.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,228.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,228.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,486.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,486.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,732.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $4,034.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $4,685.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $4,685.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $4,685.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $4,685.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $4,988.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $5,849.00 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $5,874.42 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $6,054.62 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $6,077.00 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $6,176.90 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $6,176.90 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $7,014.00 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $7,161.62 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | PPO | $8,146.35 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | CSN | $10,740.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $11,636.00 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $12,613.79 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | PPO | $13,835.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $14,415.76 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $16,217.73 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $19,209.00 | ↓ -47% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $64,880.00 | ↑ +80% |
| United | SmallGroup | $66,500.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $95,000.00 | ↑ +164% |
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Rmvl sq defib electrode at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,237.85 | $1,017.61 – $9,251.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,237.85 | $740.08 – $9,251.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3,772.76 – $5,192.18 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $5,192.18 – $5,192.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $7,532.10 | $2,134.09 – $9,728.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,417.27 | $909.22 – $9,728.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,294.57 | $858.91 – $9,728.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $7,532.10 | $2,008.56 – $9,728.21 |