Low cost skin substitute app at HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST
6002 FAIRMONT PKWY, PASADENA, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1174576698
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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.
$864.81 with BCBS vs $4,690.00 with Humana — 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 | MyBlueHealth | $864.81 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $974.16 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,028.83 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,078.53 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,123.27 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,579.00 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,098.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,098.00 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,128.00 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,229.00 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,229.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,299.00 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,428.00 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,444.00 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,623.00 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,623.00 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,631.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,832.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,832.00 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,876.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,106.00 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,128.00 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | — |
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Low cost skin substitute app at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $288.05 | $54.73 – $617.25 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $818.58 | $507.58 – $4,524.00 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $518.00 | $100.00 – $1,480.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $140.88 | $102.56 – $805.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $393.75 | $525.00 – $2,362.50 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $518.00 | $90.00 – $1,480.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $518.00 | $90.00 – $1,480.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $140.88 | $442.75 – $805.00 |