Urinalysis qual/semiquant excpt ia at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$196.51
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.
$196.51
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.
$1.82 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $104.74 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1.82 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1.82 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1.82 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1.82 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $1.86 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $1.97 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $2.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $2.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $2.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $2.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $2.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $2.17 | ↓ -99% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $2.18 | ↓ -99% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $2.19 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MCR | $2.21 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $2.24 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | POS | $2.24 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | SNP | $2.24 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $2.24 | ↓ -99% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $2.24 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PPO | $2.24 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $2.27 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $2.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $2.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $2.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $2.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $2.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $2.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2.35 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $2.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $2.37 | ↓ -99% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $2.82 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $3.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $3.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | EPO | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | HMO | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $4.38 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $4.67 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BAV | $4.84 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | HMO | $6.05 | ↓ -97% |
| Oscar | HIX | $6.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $6.49 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $6.49 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | PPO | $6.92 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $7.95 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | CSN | $8.36 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $9.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $10.58 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $10.58 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $10.58 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | PPO | $10.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $11.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $11.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $11.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $11.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $11.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $11.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $11.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $11.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $13.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $13.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $13.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $14.27 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $14.27 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $14.27 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | HMO | $28.89 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | PPO | $28.89 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $33.01 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $53.65 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $68.78 | ↓ -65% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $88.43 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $104.74 | ↓ -47% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Urinalysis qual/semiquant excpt ia at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1.82 – $8.36 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $46.86 | $1.82 – $42.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $46.86 | $3.18 – $31.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $46.86 | $1.82 – $24.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $46.86 | $1.82 – $42.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $46.86 | $1.95 – $31.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $46.86 | $1.82 – $31.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $46.86 | $1.82 – $29.06 |