Swallowing Therapy Session at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$559.41
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.
$559.41
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.
$33.56 with Superior Health Plan vs $475.50 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 | $33.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $33.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $33.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $33.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $33.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $72.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $72.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $72.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $72.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $78.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $78.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $82.69 | ↓ -85% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $83.96 | ↓ -85% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $84.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $85.22 | ↓ -85% |
| United | MCR | $86.07 | ↓ -85% |
| WellCare | SNP | $86.91 | ↓ -84% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $86.91 | ↓ -84% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $86.91 | ↓ -84% |
| WellCare | POS | $86.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $86.91 | ↓ -84% |
| WellCare | PPO | $86.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $88.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $89.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $89.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $89.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $89.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $89.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $91.97 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $93.98 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $109.08 | ↓ -81% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $109.69 | ↓ -80% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $122.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $122.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior | HMO | $130.79 | ↓ -77% |
| Superior | EPO | $130.79 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $173.98 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $173.98 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $173.98 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $181.42 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $185.16 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $185.16 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $185.16 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $185.33 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $185.33 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $195.79 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $205.78 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $217.05 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $217.05 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $217.05 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | BAV | $226.89 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $234.39 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $234.39 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $234.39 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $251.73 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | HMO | $284.05 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $284.05 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | PPO | $284.05 | ↓ -49% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $289.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $419.56 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $475.50 | ↓ -15% |
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Swallowing Therapy Session at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $141.40 | $48.69 – $404.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $141.40 | $100.00 – $404.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $115.50 | $84.37 – $164.52 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $28.00 | $84.37 – $337.48 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $115.50 | $84.37 – $337.48 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $82.69 – $181.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $82.69 – $181.42 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $332.43 | $338.57 – $338.57 |