X-ray sella turcica at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$1,279.82
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.
$1,279.82
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.
$33.08 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $682.14 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 | $33.08 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $33.08 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $33.08 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $33.08 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $33.74 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $35.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $36.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $36.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $36.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $36.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $41.35 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $76.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $76.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $76.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $76.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $76.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | CSN | $87.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $94.29 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | PPO | $112.08 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $140.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $143.16 | ↓ -89% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $153.71 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | BAV | $177.98 | ↓ -86% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $182.03 | ↓ -86% |
| United | SmallGroup | $182.03 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $190.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $190.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $190.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $202.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $202.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $202.40 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $215.01 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $237.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $237.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $237.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $257.20 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $257.20 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $257.20 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $271.35 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $290.51 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $308.86 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $326.35 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $349.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $365.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | HMO | $365.61 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $447.94 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $511.93 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $511.93 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $575.92 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $682.14 | ↓ -47% |
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X-ray sella turcica at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $86.45 | $27.17 – $247.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $86.45 | $19.76 – $247.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $32.42 – $143.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $33.08 – $143.16 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $92.48 | $33.08 – $225.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $200.74 | $41.32 – $301.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $210.77 | $33.08 – $263.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $92.48 | $33.08 – $225.11 |