Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$34.29
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.
$34.29
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.
$2.06 with Superior Health Plan vs $240.10 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 | $2.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $2.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $2.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $2.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $2.06 | ↓ -94% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $5.76 | ↓ -83% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $9.36 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $12.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $15.10 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $15.10 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $15.10 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $15.10 | ↓ -56% |
| United | MGMCD | $15.40 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $15.43 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $16.31 | ↓ -52% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $16.61 | ↓ -52% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $16.61 | ↓ -52% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $16.61 | ↓ -52% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $16.61 | ↓ -52% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $17.62 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| United | SmallGroup | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | FED | $17.98 | ↓ -48% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $18.07 | ↓ -47% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $18.16 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $18.28 | ↓ -47% |
| United | MCR | $18.34 | ↓ -47% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $18.52 | ↓ -46% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $18.52 | ↓ -46% |
| WellCare | SNP | $18.52 | ↓ -46% |
| WellCare | PPO | $18.52 | ↓ -46% |
| WellCare | POS | $18.52 | ↓ -46% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $18.52 | ↓ -46% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | MCD | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $18.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $19.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $19.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $19.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $19.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $19.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $19.46 | ↓ -43% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $19.46 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $19.60 | ↓ -43% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $23.37 | ↓ -32% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $26.07 | ↓ -24% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $26.07 | ↓ -24% |
| Superior | EPO | $27.87 | ↓ -19% |
| Superior | HMO | $27.87 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $36.32 | ↑ +6% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $38.66 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS | BAV | $40.10 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS | HMO | $50.16 | ↑ +46% |
| Oscar | HIX | $51.96 | ↑ +52% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $53.76 | ↑ +57% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $53.92 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS | PPO | $57.36 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $65.84 | ↑ +92% |
| Cigna | CSN | $73.87 | ↑ +115% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $80.01 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $87.56 | ↑ +155% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $87.56 | ↑ +155% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $87.56 | ↑ +155% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $93.02 | ↑ +171% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $93.02 | ↑ +171% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $93.02 | ↑ +171% |
| Cigna | PPO | $95.19 | ↑ +178% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $109.28 | ↑ +219% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $109.28 | ↑ +219% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $109.28 | ↑ +219% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $118.16 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $118.16 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $118.16 | ↑ +245% |
| Humana | PPO | $240.10 | ↑ +600% |
| Humana | HMO | $240.10 | ↑ +600% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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