Surgical pathology level 5 gross & microscopic examination at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
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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.
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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.
$153.30 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,847.62 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $153.30 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $153.30 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $153.30 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $153.30 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $153.30 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $332.15 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $332.15 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $332.15 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $332.15 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $429.24 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $498.23 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $651.52 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $697.51 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $784.65 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $870.11 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $894.25 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $942.46 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,022.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,043.48 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,043.48 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,043.48 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,108.60 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,108.60 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,108.60 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,121.30 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,149.75 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,302.32 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,302.32 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,302.32 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,361.82 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,408.13 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,408.13 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,408.13 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $1,847.62 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $1,847.62 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Surgical pathology level 5 gross & microscopic examination at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $534.80 | $138.52 – $1,528.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,836.00 | $291.26 – $1,847.62 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $534.80 | $323.15 – $1,528.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $291.26 – $1,847.62 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,114.69 | $1,091.13 – $1,091.13 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $476.75 | $35.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $519.16 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $491.47 | $36.00 – $890.45 |