Compatibility test incubate at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$554.35
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.
$554.35
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.
$33.26 with Superior Health Plan vs $498.92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $33.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $33.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $33.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $33.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $33.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $72.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $72.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $72.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $72.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $77.61 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $77.61 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $97.57 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $108.10 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $113.09 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $120.02 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | CSN | $126.87 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $131.38 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $131.38 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $133.04 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $137.42 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $141.36 | ↓ -74% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $149.16 | ↓ -73% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $149.16 | ↓ -73% |
| United | SmallGroup | $149.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $151.34 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $159.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $159.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $159.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | PPO | $163.49 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $169.57 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $169.57 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $169.57 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $194.02 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $194.02 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $199.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $199.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $199.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $215.38 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $215.38 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $215.38 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $221.74 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $238.37 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $249.46 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $249.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $249.46 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $289.87 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $295.47 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $304.89 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $304.89 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS | BAV | $320.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $332.61 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $332.61 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $332.61 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | HMO | $339.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | PPO | $339.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $360.33 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | HMO | $400.37 | ↓ -28% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $415.76 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $429.07 | ↓ -23% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $454.57 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS | PPO | $457.76 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $471.20 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $471.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $471.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $498.92 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $647.07 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $957.45 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $1,040.20 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $869.82 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $48.83 | $76.00 – $193.77 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $133.70 | $36.95 – $382.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $100.45 | $11.50 – $516.60 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $133.70 | $76.00 – $382.00 |