5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
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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.
$1.48 with Superior Health Plan vs $25.02 with Cigna — 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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| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.48 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1.48 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1.48 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1.48 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1.48 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $1.63 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $3.20 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $3.20 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $3.20 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $3.20 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $3.44 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $3.44 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $4.30 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $4.30 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4.33 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $4.87 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $5.02 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $5.83 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $5.83 | — |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $5.90 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $6.64 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $7.85 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $7.85 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $8.61 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $9.84 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $10.25 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $10.58 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $11.07 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $11.30 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $13.11 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $13.53 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $13.53 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $14.12 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $14.12 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $14.12 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $14.76 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $14.76 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $14.76 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $15.99 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $18.45 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $19.41 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $20.17 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $20.91 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $20.91 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $20.91 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $21.01 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $22.14 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $25.02 | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $20.14 – $20.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $10.25 – $19.41 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $10.25 – $19.41 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $19.56 – $20.88 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $10.25 – $19.41 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $10.25 – $19.41 |