Artery x-rays chest at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$7,961.57
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.
$7,961.57
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.
$161.73 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $11,473.10 with BCBS — 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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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $161.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $161.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $161.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $161.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $162.09 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $164.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $165.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $165.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $165.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $165.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $165.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $174.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $181.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $181.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $181.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $181.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $206.75 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | CSN | $388.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $420.57 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $477.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $477.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $477.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $477.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $477.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | PPO | $499.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $616.95 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $819.99 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $819.99 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $819.99 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $872.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $872.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $872.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,025.64 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,025.64 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,025.64 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,108.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,108.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,108.42 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,401.24 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,624.16 | ↓ -80% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $1,910.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,023.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,023.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,030.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,173.51 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,786.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $2,786.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,184.63 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,184.63 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $3,423.48 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3,582.71 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $3,582.71 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,582.71 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,243.52 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $4,378.86 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $4,378.86 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,776.94 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4,776.94 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4,776.94 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $4,877.45 | ↓ -39% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $5,175.02 | ↓ -35% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5,437.15 | ↓ -32% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $5,971.18 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | BAV | $6,179.95 | ↓ -22% |
| United | SmallGroup | $6,438.74 | ↓ -19% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $6,438.74 | ↓ -19% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $6,528.49 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $6,767.33 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $6,767.33 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $6,767.33 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $7,165.41 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | HMO | $9,422.35 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $10,447.73 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS | PPO | $11,473.10 | ↑ +44% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,498.28 | $514.23 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,943.48 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,498.28 | $176.98 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,498.28 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,943.48 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |