Frozen blood thaw at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$299.07
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.
$299.07
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.
$17.94 with Superior Health Plan vs $938.96 with Humana — 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 | $17.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $17.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $17.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $17.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $17.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $38.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $38.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $38.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $38.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $41.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $41.87 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $52.64 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $58.32 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $61.01 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $70.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $70.88 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $71.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $76.26 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $81.65 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $104.67 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $104.67 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $119.63 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $128.60 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $134.58 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $134.58 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $134.58 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $159.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $164.49 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $164.49 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $179.44 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $179.44 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $179.44 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $194.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $224.30 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $245.24 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $254.21 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $254.21 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $254.21 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $269.16 | ↓ -10% |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | ↓ -3% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | ↓ -3% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $333.93 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | CSN | $352.68 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $382.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $444.08 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $444.08 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $444.08 | ↑ +48% |
| Cigna | PPO | $454.49 | ↑ +52% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $471.80 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $471.80 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $471.80 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $554.24 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $554.24 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $554.24 | ↑ +85% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | ↑ +91% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $599.27 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $599.27 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $599.27 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | ↑ +164% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | ↑ +183% |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | ↑ +202% |
| Humana | HMO | $938.96 | ↑ +214% |
| Humana | PPO | $938.96 | ↑ +214% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Frozen blood thaw at other Texas hospitals
| 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 – $938.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $291.26 – $938.96 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $198.14 – $1,235.67 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $291.26 – $938.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $291.26 – $938.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $291.26 – $938.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $291.26 – $938.96 |