X-ray small bowel multi serial images abdominal radiographs(s)&delayed images single contrast study 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.
$124.30 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $2,030.77 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 | STAR+PLUS | $124.30 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $124.30 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $124.30 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $124.30 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $126.79 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $134.16 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $134.16 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $134.16 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $134.16 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $134.24 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $152.45 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $228.60 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $228.60 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $228.60 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $228.60 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $228.60 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $312.87 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $320.71 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $338.60 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $339.25 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $401.74 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $402.50 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $406.35 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $521.58 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $619.55 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $640.09 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $663.28 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $693.23 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $693.23 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $693.23 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $705.19 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $737.44 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $737.44 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $737.44 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $867.10 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $867.10 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $867.10 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $937.08 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $937.08 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $937.08 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $971.57 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,040.15 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,333.52 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $1,397.11 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $1,397.11 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,524.03 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,524.03 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,714.53 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,030.77 | — |
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X-ray small bowel multi serial images abdominal radiographs(s)&delayed images single contrast study at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $676.20 | $121.96 – $1,932.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $676.20 | $121.96 – $1,932.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $5,417.92 | $121.96 – $521.58 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $119.52 – $521.58 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $561.67 | $121.96 – $702.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $520.69 | $107.18 – $781.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $602.88 | $121.96 – $753.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $561.67 | $121.96 – $702.09 |