CT scan for localization at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$4,905.46
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.
$4,905.46
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.
$294.33 with Superior Health Plan vs $4,414.91 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 | STAR | $294.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $294.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $294.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $294.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $294.33 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $296.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $325.23 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $376.11 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | HMO | $573.44 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $635.85 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $637.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $637.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $637.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $637.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $686.76 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $686.76 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | PPO | $698.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $725.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | CSN | $726.01 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $784.87 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior | HMO | $858.46 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | EPO | $858.46 | ↓ -82% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $863.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $932.04 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $963.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $963.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $963.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $971.28 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,000.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,024.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,024.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,024.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1,162.59 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1,162.59 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $1,177.31 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,203.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,203.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,203.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,301.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,301.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,301.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1,324.47 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,716.91 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,962.18 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2,109.35 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,207.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $2,207.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,614.61 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,698.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,698.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,875.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,875.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,943.28 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,943.28 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,943.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $3,188.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $3,679.09 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $4,022.48 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $4,169.64 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $4,169.64 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $4,169.64 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $4,414.91 | ↓ -10% |
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CT scan for localization at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $798.35 | $226.20 – $1,841.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,202.37 | $247.49 – $1,841.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,205.14 | $241.03 – $1,841.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $798.35 | $212.89 – $1,841.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,202.37 | $385.96 – $1,841.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,202.37 | $621.22 – $2,181.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,205.14 | $401.71 – $1,841.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $798.35 | $212.89 – $1,841.00 |