Dextrose 5 % IV bolus 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.
$0.42 with Superior Health Plan vs $600.00 with Texas Athletic Network — 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $0.42 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $0.42 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $0.42 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $0.42 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $0.42 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $0.46 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $0.91 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $0.91 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $0.91 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $0.91 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $0.98 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $0.98 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $1.23 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $1.23 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1.23 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $1.36 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $1.39 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1.43 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1.66 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1.66 | — |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $1.68 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1.78 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1.85 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1.89 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1.91 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2.25 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2.25 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2.25 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2.39 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2.39 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2.39 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $2.45 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2.45 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2.80 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2.81 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2.81 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2.81 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2.94 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $3.01 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3.03 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3.03 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3.03 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $3.15 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3.15 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3.15 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3.73 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $3.85 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $3.85 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4.20 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4.20 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4.20 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $4.55 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $4.85 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $4.85 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $4.85 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $5.25 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $5.74 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $5.95 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $5.95 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $5.95 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $6.30 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $7.36 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $7.96 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $9.48 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $29.71 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $32.75 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $40.93 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $40.93 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $40.93 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $48.12 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $48.12 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | — |
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Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $137.39 | $58.37 – $58.37 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $508.55 | $3.64 – $48.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $404.30 | $3.64 – $48.12 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $47.69 | $10.64 – $60.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $354.45 | $3.64 – $48.12 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $9.56 | $5.14 – $18.65 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $10.75 | $1.28 – $5.79 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $483.65 | $3.64 – $48.12 |