Bedside drainage bag at HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD
5324 ATASCOCITA RD, HUMBLE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1811942238
$158.50
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.
$158.50
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.
$9.51 with Superior Health Plan vs $142.65 with Affiliated PPO — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $9.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $9.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $9.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $9.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $9.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $11.52 | ↓ -93% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $11.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $11.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | MCR | $11.86 | ↓ -93% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $11.88 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $11.89 | ↓ -92% |
| United | MCR | $12.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $12.11 | ↓ -92% |
| WellCare | SNP | $12.11 | ↓ -92% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $12.11 | ↓ -92% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $12.11 | ↓ -92% |
| WellCare | POS | $12.11 | ↓ -92% |
| WellCare | PPO | $12.11 | ↓ -92% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $12.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $12.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $12.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $12.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $12.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $12.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $12.82 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BAV | $13.14 | ↓ -92% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $14.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $15.29 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | HMO | $16.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $17.05 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $17.05 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $17.36 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | HMO | $18.23 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior | EPO | $18.23 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | PPO | $18.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $20.61 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $20.61 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $20.61 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $20.61 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $22.19 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $22.19 | ↓ -86% |
| USA Managed Care | WORKERSCOMP | $22.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $23.28 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | CSN | $23.46 | ↓ -85% |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $24.70 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $25.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $25.36 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $26.31 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $26.63 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $30.11 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $37.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $37.56 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $55.48 | ↓ -65% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $68.16 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $71.33 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $84.48 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $87.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $87.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | HMO | $90.48 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | PPO | $90.48 | ↓ -43% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $95.10 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $95.10 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $95.10 | ↓ -40% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $118.88 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $129.97 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $134.72 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $134.72 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $134.72 | ↓ -15% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $134.72 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $142.65 | ↓ -10% |
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Bedside drainage bag at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $7.88 | $5.74 – $40.50 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $7.88 | $13.81 – $38.25 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen | Allen | $37.37 | not published |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound | Flower Mound | $37.37 | not published |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $7.88 | $13.81 – $49.95 |
| Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance | Fort Worth | $37.37 | not published |
| Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital | Arlington | $37.37 | not published |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton | Denton | $37.37 | not published |