Ultrasound encephalogram at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$3,291.67
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.
$3,291.67
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.
$106.88 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $1,754.46 with Coventry National First Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $106.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $106.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $106.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $106.88 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $109.02 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $115.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $115.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $115.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $115.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $115.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MCD | $130.94 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $197.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $197.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $197.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $197.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $197.50 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $213.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $407.97 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | PPO | $433.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $509.62 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $553.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $677.33 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $677.33 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $677.33 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $720.52 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $720.52 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $720.52 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $847.20 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $847.20 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $847.20 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $898.63 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $915.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $915.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $915.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,050.37 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,050.37 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,152.08 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,316.67 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,316.67 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,481.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,754.46 | ↓ -47% |
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Ultrasound encephalogram at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $198.10 | $62.26 – $566.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $198.10 | $45.28 – $566.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $3,739.64 | $104.75 – $509.62 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $873.85 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $496.36 | $99.77 – $620.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $456.60 | $93.98 – $684.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $444.58 | $99.77 – $555.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $496.36 | $99.77 – $620.45 |