Echo transesophageal intraop at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$3,989.65
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.
$3,989.65
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.
$239.38 with Superior Health Plan vs $3,590.68 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 | STARPLUS | $239.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $239.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $239.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $239.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $239.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $244.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $249.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | MGMCD | $254.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $269.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $274.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $274.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $274.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $274.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | MCD | $311.57 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $590.47 | ↓ -85% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $638.34 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $702.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $758.03 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $777.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $813.89 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $945.55 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $945.55 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $957.52 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | PPO | $968.35 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | HMO | $968.35 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,017.36 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,057.26 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,089.17 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,163.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,280.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,280.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,280.68 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,283.14 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,364.46 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,364.46 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,364.46 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,396.38 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,396.38 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,595.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,595.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,599.85 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,599.85 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,599.85 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,606.41 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,636.25 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,666.09 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,715.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,727.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,727.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,727.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,795.34 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,795.34 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,795.34 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,126.48 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,194.31 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,194.31 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,393.79 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,393.79 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,393.79 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,593.27 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $2,992.24 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,271.51 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $3,391.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $3,391.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $3,391.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $3,590.68 | ↓ -10% |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - IRVING | Irving | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - LAKE POINTE | Rowlett | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - MCKINNEY | McKinney | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - FRISCO AT PGA PARKWAY | Frisco | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |