Swallowing Evaluation (Bedside) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$483.13
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.
$483.13
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.
$28.99 with Superior Health Plan vs $410.66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $28.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $28.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $28.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $28.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $28.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $62.81 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $62.81 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $62.81 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $62.81 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $67.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $67.64 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $81.17 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $83.32 | ↓ -83% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $84.59 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $85.02 | ↓ -82% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $85.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $85.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $85.87 | ↓ -82% |
| United | MCR | $86.72 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $87.57 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $87.57 | ↓ -82% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $87.57 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | POS | $87.57 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | PPO | $87.57 | ↓ -82% |
| WellCare | SNP | $87.57 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $89.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $90.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $90.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $90.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $90.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $90.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $92.67 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $94.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $110.53 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $123.28 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $123.28 | ↓ -74% |
| Superior | HMO | $131.78 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | EPO | $131.78 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $150.25 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $150.25 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $150.25 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $159.92 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $159.92 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $159.92 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $160.06 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $160.06 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $169.10 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $173.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $182.79 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $187.45 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $187.45 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $187.45 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | BAV | $191.54 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $202.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $202.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $202.43 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $217.41 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | HMO | $239.80 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | PPO | $239.80 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $239.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $250.26 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $362.35 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $410.66 | ↓ -15% |
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Swallowing Evaluation (Bedside) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $298.20 | $87.60 – $852.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $298.20 | $100.00 – $852.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $302.50 | $58.07 – $113.24 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $185.50 | $58.07 – $232.28 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $302.50 | $58.07 – $232.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $83.32 – $182.79 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $83.32 – $182.79 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $439.28 | $285.82 – $285.82 |