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5324 ATASCOCITA RD, HUMBLE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1811942238
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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.
$4.79 with Texas Health Network vs $197.09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $4.79 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $4.89 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $4.89 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $4.89 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $4.89 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $4.89 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $4.89 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $4.89 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $4.89 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $4.99 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $5.28 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $5.38 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $5.38 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $5.38 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $5.38 | — |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $5.70 | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $5.79 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $5.82 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $5.82 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $5.82 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $5.82 | — |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $5.82 | — |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $5.82 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $5.82 | — |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $5.82 | — |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $5.82 | — |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $5.82 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $5.82 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $5.82 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $5.82 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $5.82 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $5.82 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $5.82 | — |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $5.82 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $5.82 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5.82 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $5.87 | — |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $5.88 | — |
| United | MCR | $5.94 | — |
| WellCare | SNP | $5.99 | — |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $5.99 | — |
| WellCare | PFFS | $5.99 | — |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $5.99 | — |
| WellCare | POS | $5.99 | — |
| WellCare | PPO | $5.99 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $6.11 | — |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $6.11 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $6.11 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $6.11 | — |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $6.11 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $6.11 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $6.11 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $6.11 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $6.11 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $6.11 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $6.17 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $6.17 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $6.17 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $6.17 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $6.17 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $6.30 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $6.30 | — |
| Molina | MGMCR | $6.34 | — |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $6.98 | — |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $7.57 | — |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $8.44 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $8.44 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $9.02 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $9.02 | — |
| USA Managed Care | WORKERSCOMP | $11.06 | — |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $11.52 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $11.76 | — |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $12.22 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $12.51 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $12.98 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $13.14 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $13.14 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $13.14 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $13.14 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $13.14 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $14.14 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $16.24 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $16.82 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $17.40 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $18.57 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $21.30 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $23.69 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $25.65 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $28.33 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $28.33 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $28.33 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $30.10 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $30.10 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $30.10 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $30.52 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $35.36 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $35.36 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $35.36 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $36.35 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $36.79 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $38.23 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $38.23 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $38.23 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $59.78 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $62.97 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $62.97 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $76.65 | — |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $76.65 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $76.65 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $94.17 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $98.55 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $98.55 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $98.55 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $116.72 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $120.44 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $120.44 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $131.39 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $131.39 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $131.39 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $142.34 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $164.24 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $179.57 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $186.14 | — |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $186.14 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $186.14 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $186.14 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $197.09 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $129.55 | $5.24 – $22.41 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $75.59 | $4.89 – $94.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $68.63 | $8.53 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $63.11 | $4.89 – $78.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $75.59 | $4.89 – $94.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $68.63 | $5.23 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $68.63 | $4.89 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $63.11 | $4.89 – $94.66 |