Volume measurement urine timed at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$32.70
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.
$32.70
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.
$1.96 with Superior Health Plan vs $40.14 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 | CHIP | $1.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $3.06 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $3.06 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $3.06 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $3.06 | ↓ -91% |
| United | MGMCD | $3.12 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $3.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $3.37 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $3.37 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $3.37 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $3.37 | ↓ -90% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $3.57 | ↓ -89% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| United | SmallGroup | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $3.64 | ↓ -89% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $3.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $3.68 | ↓ -89% |
| United | MCR | $3.71 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | PPO | $3.75 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | POS | $3.75 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $3.75 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $3.75 | ↓ -89% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $3.75 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | SNP | $3.75 | ↓ -89% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $3.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | MCD | $3.83 | ↓ -88% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $3.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $3.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $3.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $3.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $3.86 | ↓ -88% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $3.94 | ↓ -88% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3.94 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $3.97 | ↓ -88% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $4.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $5.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $5.28 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $5.49 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $5.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $5.64 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $7.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $7.83 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BAV | $8.12 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $8.93 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $9.01 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | HMO | $10.16 | ↓ -69% |
| Oscar | HIX | $10.52 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $10.88 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $11.45 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | PPO | $11.61 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $13.35 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $14.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | CSN | $15.33 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $16.60 | ↓ -49% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $17.43 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $17.76 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $17.76 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $17.76 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $18.86 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $18.86 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $18.86 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | PPO | $19.75 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $22.16 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $22.16 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $22.16 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $23.96 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $23.96 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $23.96 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana | PPO | $40.14 | ↑ +23% |
| Humana | HMO | $40.14 | ↑ +23% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Volume measurement urine timed at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $22.40 | $2.62 – $64.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $125.00 | $3.00 – $15.33 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $22.40 | $2.62 – $64.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $3.06 – $15.33 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $23.33 | $3.06 – $29.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $21.00 | $4.32 – $31.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $25.87 | $3.06 – $32.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $23.33 | $3.06 – $29.16 |