Cardioassist internal at HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST
6002 FAIRMONT PKWY, PASADENA, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1174576698
$18,151.41
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.
$18,151.41
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.
$300.00 with Texas Athletic Network vs $16,336.27 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 Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1,089.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1,089.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1,089.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1,089.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1,089.08 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,824.28 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,923.36 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,923.36 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | BAV | $2,009.29 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,275.87 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2,307.70 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | HMO | $2,339.53 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $2,359.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $2,359.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $2,359.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $2,359.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $2,541.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $2,541.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $3,194.65 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,539.52 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $3,666.58 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $4,301.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $4,301.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $4,356.34 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $4,900.88 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $5,445.42 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $5,841.00 | ↓ -68% |
| United | SmallGroup | $6,300.00 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $6,352.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $7,260.56 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $7,805.11 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $8,168.13 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $8,168.13 | ↓ -55% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $8,757.00 | ↓ -52% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9,000.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $9,075.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $9,674.70 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $9,983.28 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $9,983.28 | ↓ -45% |
| Prime Health Services | WORKERSCOMP | $10,890.85 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $10,890.85 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $10,890.85 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $10,890.85 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $10,890.85 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $11,798.42 | ↓ -35% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $12,018.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Fiesta Mart, Inc | COMM | $13,613.56 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $14,521.13 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $14,521.13 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $14,884.16 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $15,428.70 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $15,428.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $16,207.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $16,336.27 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $16,336.27 | ↓ -10% |
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Cardioassist internal at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,363.56 | $610.75 – $6,181.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $343.04 | $70.61 – $514.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $343.04 | $68.61 – $600.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,363.56 | $465.52 – $6,181.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $343.04 | $110.12 – $734.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $343.04 | $177.24 – $2,234.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $343.04 | $114.35 – $600.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $4,363.56 | $610.75 – $6,181.71 |