Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$498.89
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.
$498.89
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.
$29.93 with Superior Health Plan vs $420.48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $29.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $29.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $29.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $29.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $29.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $64.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $64.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $64.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $64.86 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $83.81 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $97.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $132.21 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $160.14 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $160.14 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $160.14 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $170.62 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $170.62 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $170.62 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $174.61 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $199.56 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $200.05 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $200.05 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $200.05 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $216.02 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $216.02 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $216.02 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $224.50 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $255.13 | ↓ -49% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $265.91 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | BAV | $281.30 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $352.17 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS | HMO | $352.17 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS | PPO | $352.17 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | HMO | $420.48 | ↓ -16% |
| Humana | PPO | $420.48 | ↓ -16% |
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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $247.10 | $76.84 – $706.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $161.00 | $255.13 – $420.48 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $247.10 | $100.00 – $706.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $489.41 | $255.13 – $420.48 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $327.58 | $419.77 – $419.77 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $349.13 | $98.92 – $436.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $312.44 | $64.31 – $468.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $420.58 | $84.12 – $525.73 |