Valvuloplasty aortic at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$27,697.41
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.
$27,697.41
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.
$2,643.00 with Aetna vs $43,890.00 with Curative Administrators — 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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| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,643.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $3,511.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $3,511.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $3,600.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $3,600.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $3,600.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $3,600.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,730.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,730.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $3,792.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $4,028.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $4,390.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $4,390.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4,653.16 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $4,740.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $4,742.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $4,742.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $5,120.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $5,591.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $5,591.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $5,591.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $5,591.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $5,591.00 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $9,694.09 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | HMO | $10,106.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | PPO | $10,106.00 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $10,948.14 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $11,078.96 | ↓ -60% |
| Oscar | HIX | $11,153.00 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | BAV | $12,038.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $12,463.83 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $14,762.72 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | HMO | $16,694.68 | ↓ -40% |
| United | SmallGroup | $16,800.00 | ↓ -39% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $17,117.00 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $17,834.08 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS | PPO | $18,973.48 | ↓ -31% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $21,231.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $24,000.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | CSN | $28,305.00 | ↑ +2% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $29,288.00 | ↑ +6% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $30,666.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | PPO | $36,462.00 | ↑ +32% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $43,890.00 | ↑ +58% |
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Valvuloplasty aortic at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,723.35 | $855.91 – $7,781.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,723.35 | $622.48 – $7,781.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $9,313.35 – $9,313.35 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $10,948.14 – $10,948.14 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $16,030.65 | $4,542.02 – $20,038.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $13,324.96 | $2,742.72 – $19,987.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $9,551.60 | $1,910.32 – $14,159.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $16,030.65 | $4,274.84 – $20,038.31 |