Whole Skeleton X-ray Survey 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.
$77.94 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,169.15 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 | STAR | $77.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $77.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $77.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $77.94 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $77.94 | — |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $97.90 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $99.90 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $100.24 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $100.24 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $100.24 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $100.24 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $102.24 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $108.26 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $109.89 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $109.89 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $109.89 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $109.89 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $124.88 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $149.85 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $149.85 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $149.85 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $262.41 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $267.75 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $289.76 | — |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $311.77 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $331.26 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $344.45 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $354.64 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $409.09 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $430.38 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $430.38 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $437.11 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $454.67 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $454.67 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $519.62 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $519.62 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $558.60 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $584.58 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $584.58 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $584.58 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $605.85 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $605.85 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $605.85 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $644.64 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $644.64 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $644.64 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $672.91 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $714.48 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $714.48 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $757.93 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $757.93 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $757.93 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $779.44 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $779.44 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $779.44 | — |
| Prime Health Services | WORKERSCOMP | $779.44 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $819.50 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $819.50 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $819.50 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $844.39 | — |
| Fiesta Mart, Inc | COMM | $974.29 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $974.29 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,039.25 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,065.23 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,104.20 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,104.20 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,104.20 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,169.15 | — |
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Whole Skeleton X-ray Survey at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $519.75 | $94.91 – $1,113.75 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,533.13 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $810.79 | $99.77 – $1,013.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $826.19 | $141.23 – $1,239.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $747.36 | $99.77 – $934.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $810.79 | $99.77 – $1,013.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $826.19 | $99.77 – $1,239.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $826.19 | $99.90 – $1,239.29 |