Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) 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.
$79.86 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,535.02 with Humana — 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 | CHIP | $79.86 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $79.86 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $79.86 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $79.86 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $79.86 | — |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $187.63 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $191.46 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $191.46 | — |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $191.46 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $195.46 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $195.46 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $195.46 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $195.46 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $197.00 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $199.37 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $210.61 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $210.61 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $210.61 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $210.61 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $211.10 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $212.97 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $234.27 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $239.33 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $252.91 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $259.56 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $271.54 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $315.47 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $315.47 | — |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $319.46 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $339.43 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $352.74 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $363.38 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $384.56 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $424.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $427.28 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $427.28 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $427.28 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $455.23 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $455.23 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $455.23 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $465.88 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $465.88 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $530.82 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $532.43 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $532.43 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $533.76 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $533.76 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $533.76 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $540.68 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $550.54 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $572.36 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $576.36 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $576.36 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $576.36 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $598.99 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $598.99 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $598.99 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $709.47 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $732.09 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $732.09 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $798.65 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $798.65 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $798.65 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $865.20 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $998.31 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,091.49 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,131.42 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,131.42 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,131.42 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,197.97 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $1,535.02 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $1,535.02 | — |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,602.58 | $632.71 – $632.71 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,375.99 | $187.79 – $1,719.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,224.72 | $252.09 – $1,837.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,224.72 | $187.79 – $1,530.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,375.99 | $187.79 – $1,719.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,224.72 | $200.94 – $1,837.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,224.72 | $187.79 – $1,837.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,224.72 | $187.79 – $1,837.08 |