Stomach Emptying Scan (Nuclear Medicine) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$5,239.07
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.
$5,239.07
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.
$308.08 with Amerigroup vs $4,453.21 with Multiplan — 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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| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $308.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $308.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $314.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $314.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $314.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $314.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $314.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $326.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $326.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $326.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $326.45 | ↓ -94% |
| United | MGMCD | $332.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $338.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $338.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $338.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $338.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $352.57 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MCD | $385.10 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $542.31 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | BAV | $687.13 | ↓ -87% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -86% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -84% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $880.16 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,047.64 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,121.59 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,192.46 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,335.96 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,430.27 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,735.70 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,735.70 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,833.67 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,095.63 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,095.63 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,284.75 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,284.75 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,284.75 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,357.58 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,431.03 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,431.03 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,431.03 | ↓ -54% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,713.84 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,858.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,858.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,858.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,090.45 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,090.45 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,090.45 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $3,929.30 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $4,453.21 | ↓ -15% |
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Stomach Emptying Scan (Nuclear Medicine) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,282.40 | $308.08 – $3,664.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,282.40 | $293.12 – $3,664.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $12,752.50 | $308.08 – $2,284.75 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $2,198.00 | $401.59 – $783.11 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $2,342.50 | $401.59 – $1,606.37 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $2,198.00 | $401.59 – $1,606.37 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $301.92 – $2,284.75 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,861.14 | $296.71 – $2,326.43 |