Cath right heart w/o2 sat & card at Houston Methodist Hospital
6565 Fannin, Houston, TX · Houstonmethodist · · NPI 1548387418
$6,454.00
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.
$12,908.00
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.
$3,256.70 with Bcbs vs $17,349.00 with Unitedhealthcare — 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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| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,256.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo | $3,305.56 | ↓ -49% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,321.84 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Texas Healthspring Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo | $3,354.41 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina Healthcare | Advantage Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,419.54 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Choice | D-Snp Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,484.67 | ↓ -46% |
| Procare Advantage | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,582.38 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Choice | Silver & Gold Exchange | $5,308.43 | ↓ -18% |
| Optum Health | Transplant Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6,350.57 | ↓ -2% |
| Molina Healthcare | Exchange | $7,034.48 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | New Business Discount Other Commercial Plan | $7,316.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Hmo/Pos/Ppo | $7,542.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Bcbs | All Commercial Plans | $8,407.35 | ↑ +30% |
| Uae | All Commercial Plans | $13,026.82 | ↑ +102% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $17,349.00 | ↑ +169% |
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Cath right heart w/o2 sat & card at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $4,570.30 | $1,436.38 – $13,058.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $4,570.30 | $1,044.64 – $13,058.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $6,038.00 | $3,256.70 – $6,350.57 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $6,038.00 | $3,256.70 – $13,026.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $6,298.39 – $6,298.39 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $5,357.91 – $5,357.91 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $6,298.39 – $6,298.39 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $10,400.23 | $2,946.73 – $13,331.00 |