X-ray l/s-spine bend vw only 2-3 vw at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$2,103.65
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.
$2,103.65
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.
$40.76 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $1,121.25 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 | CHIPPerinatal | $40.76 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $40.76 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $40.76 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $40.76 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $41.58 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $44.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $44.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $44.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $44.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $44.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $50.95 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $108.99 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $117.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $126.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $126.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $126.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $126.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $126.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | PPO | $140.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $178.98 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | ↓ -91% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $237.88 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $237.88 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $237.88 | ↓ -89% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -88% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $253.05 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $253.05 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $253.05 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $297.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $297.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $297.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $321.56 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $321.56 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $321.56 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $353.41 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $407.97 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | PPO | $433.75 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | HMO | $514.65 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | PPO | $514.65 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $536.43 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $574.30 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $736.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $841.46 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $841.46 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $946.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,121.25 | ↓ -47% |
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X-ray l/s-spine bend vw only 2-3 vw at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,701.00 | $39.94 – $197.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $40.76 – $197.26 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $814.45 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $341.30 | $40.76 – $426.63 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $468.26 | $96.38 – $702.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $423.69 | $40.76 – $529.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $341.30 | $40.76 – $426.63 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $468.26 | $43.61 – $702.39 |