Blood Culture Test at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$1,643.45
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.
$1,643.45
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.
$8.50 with Texas Health Network vs $1,479.11 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 Health Network | MCD | $8.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $8.67 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $8.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $9.36 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $9.54 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $9.54 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $9.54 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $9.54 | ↓ -99% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $10.11 | ↓ -99% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $10.27 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| GEO Group - Joe Corley Detention Facility | GVT | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $10.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCR | $10.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $10.42 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MCR | $10.53 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | SNP | $10.63 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PPO | $10.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $10.63 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $10.63 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $10.63 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | POS | $10.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $10.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $10.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $10.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $10.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $10.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $10.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $11.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $11.25 | ↓ -99% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $12.38 | ↓ -99% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $13.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $14.96 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $14.96 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | EPO | $16.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | HMO | $16.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $20.43 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $20.85 | ↓ -99% |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $21.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $22.19 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BAV | $23.01 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | HMO | $28.79 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | HIX | $29.82 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $30.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $30.96 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | PPO | $32.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $37.79 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $41.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $45.31 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $50.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $50.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $50.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $53.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $53.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $53.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | PPO | $53.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $62.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $62.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $62.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $67.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $67.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $67.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $98.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $98.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $98.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $98.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $98.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | PPO | $137.85 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | HMO | $137.85 | ↓ -92% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $289.25 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $335.26 | ↓ -80% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $394.43 | ↓ -76% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $448.66 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $575.21 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $575.21 | ↓ -65% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $706.68 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $739.55 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $739.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $739.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $875.96 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $903.90 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $903.90 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $986.07 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $986.07 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $986.07 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,068.24 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,232.59 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,347.63 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,396.93 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,396.93 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,396.93 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,479.11 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Blood Culture Test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $295.43 | $9.29 – $39.73 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $204.31 | $8.67 – $255.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $162.54 | $12.00 – $243.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $205.15 | $8.67 – $256.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $204.31 | $8.67 – $255.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $162.54 | $9.28 – $243.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $162.54 | $8.00 – $243.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $205.15 | $8.67 – $307.73 |