Diffusing capacity at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$2,495.62
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.
$2,495.62
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.
$109.63 with BCBS vs $2,246.06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $109.63 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $120.87 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $149.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $149.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $149.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $149.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $149.74 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $151.33 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $154.14 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | PPO | $156.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $165.46 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $324.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $324.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $324.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $324.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $349.39 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $349.39 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $369.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $399.30 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | HMO | $423.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | PPO | $423.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $436.73 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $436.73 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $439.23 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $474.17 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $486.65 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $494.13 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $509.11 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $591.46 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $591.46 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $598.95 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $636.38 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $661.34 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $673.82 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $681.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $801.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $801.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $801.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $853.50 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $853.50 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $853.50 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $873.47 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $873.47 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $998.25 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $998.25 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,000.74 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,000.74 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,000.74 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,073.12 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,080.60 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,080.60 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,080.60 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,123.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,123.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,123.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,330.17 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,372.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,372.59 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,497.37 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,497.37 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,497.37 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,622.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,871.71 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $2,046.41 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $2,121.28 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $2,121.28 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $2,121.28 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $2,246.06 | ↓ -10% |
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Diffusing capacity at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $395.37 | $112.02 – $560.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $434.72 | $89.48 – $652.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $478.63 | $95.73 – $598.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $395.37 | $105.43 – $560.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $434.72 | $139.55 – $652.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $434.72 | $224.61 – $652.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $478.63 | $141.49 – $717.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $395.37 | $105.43 – $560.11 |