Whole blood or red blood cells frozen/deglycerolized/washed leukocytes reduced each unit at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
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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.
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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.
$68.00 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $2,761.29 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $68.00 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $68.00 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $68.00 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $68.00 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $69.36 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $73.44 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $663.09 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $881.82 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $881.82 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $881.82 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $936.85 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $936.85 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $936.85 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,100.56 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,100.56 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,100.56 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,189.98 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,189.98 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,189.98 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $2,761.29 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $2,761.29 | — |
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Whole blood or red blood cells frozen/deglycerolized/washed leukocytes reduced each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,277.00 | $68.00 – $2,761.29 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $68.00 – $2,761.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $714.99 | $147.17 – $1,072.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $750.74 | $150.15 – $938.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $714.99 | $229.51 – $1,072.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $714.99 | $369.41 – $1,072.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $750.74 | $247.71 – $1,126.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $714.99 | $143.00 – $893.74 |