Frozen blood prep at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$1,779.43
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.
$1,779.43
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.
$106.77 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,601.49 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 | CHIP | $106.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $106.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $106.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $106.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $106.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $231.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $231.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $231.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $231.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $249.12 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $249.12 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $263.36 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $284.71 | ↓ -84% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | ↓ -84% |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | ↓ -84% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $313.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $338.09 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $346.99 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $363.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $421.72 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $421.72 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $427.06 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $444.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $453.75 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $485.78 | ↓ -73% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | HMO | $567.82 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $567.82 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $591.58 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $591.58 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $591.58 | ↓ -67% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $622.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $622.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $628.49 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $628.49 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $628.49 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $711.77 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $738.32 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $738.32 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $738.32 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $765.15 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $798.31 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $798.31 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $798.31 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $800.74 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $800.74 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $800.74 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $948.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $978.69 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $978.69 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,067.66 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,067.66 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,067.66 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,156.63 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,334.57 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,459.13 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,512.52 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,512.52 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,512.52 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,601.49 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $1,091.13 – $1,091.13 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $291.26 – $1,253.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $291.26 – $1,253.17 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $264.44 – $1,235.67 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $291.26 – $1,253.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $291.26 – $1,253.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $291.26 – $1,253.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $291.26 – $1,253.17 |