Brain image < 4 views at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$7,125.86
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.
$7,125.86
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.
$167.00 with Texas Health Network vs $6,413.27 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 | $167.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $170.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $170.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $170.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $170.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $170.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $180.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $180.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $180.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $180.43 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $184.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $187.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $187.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $187.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $187.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $194.86 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $213.01 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $297.48 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $376.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $427.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $427.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $427.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $427.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $427.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | HMO | $574.67 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $637.21 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | PPO | $699.74 | ↓ -90% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -88% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $915.16 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,216.34 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,216.34 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,216.34 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,254.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,293.89 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,293.89 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,293.89 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,453.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,521.39 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,521.39 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,521.39 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,644.19 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,644.19 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,644.19 | ↓ -77% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $1,710.21 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,817.09 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,945.36 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,273.86 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,273.86 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,494.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $2,494.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,850.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,850.34 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $3,064.12 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $3,206.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3,206.64 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,206.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,798.08 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $3,919.22 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $3,919.22 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4,275.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4,275.52 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,275.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $4,631.81 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $5,344.40 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $5,843.21 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $6,056.98 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $6,056.98 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $6,056.98 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $6,413.27 | ↓ -10% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $438.80 | $75.23 – $752.22 |
| Ascension Providence | Waco | $207.63 | $170.41 – $590.75 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $650.73 – $650.73 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $167.00 – $915.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $180.43 – $915.16 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $736.93 – $736.93 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $167.00 – $915.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $170.41 – $915.16 |