Immunofluorescence per specimen initial single antibody stain at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$163.13
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.
$163.13
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.
$9.79 with Superior Health Plan vs $904.08 with BCBS — 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 | $9.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $9.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $9.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $9.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $9.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $21.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $21.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $21.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $21.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $22.84 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $22.84 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $28.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $31.81 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $33.28 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $38.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $38.66 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $39.15 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $41.60 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $44.53 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $57.10 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $57.10 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $65.25 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $70.15 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $73.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $73.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $73.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $86.95 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $89.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $89.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $97.88 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $97.88 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $97.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $106.03 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $122.35 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $133.77 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $138.66 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $138.66 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $138.66 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $146.82 | ↓ -10% |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | ↑ +79% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | ↑ +79% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | ↑ +79% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $451.20 | ↑ +177% |
| Cigna | CSN | $486.22 | ↑ +198% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $526.64 | ↑ +223% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | ↑ +251% |
| Humana | HMO | $587.63 | ↑ +260% |
| Humana | PPO | $587.63 | ↑ +260% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $600.04 | ↑ +268% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $600.04 | ↑ +268% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $600.04 | ↑ +268% |
| Cigna | PPO | $626.58 | ↑ +284% |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | ↑ +287% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $637.48 | ↑ +291% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $637.48 | ↑ +291% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $637.48 | ↑ +291% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $748.88 | ↑ +359% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $748.88 | ↑ +359% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $748.88 | ↑ +359% |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | ↑ +385% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $809.73 | ↑ +396% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $809.73 | ↑ +396% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $809.73 | ↑ +396% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | ↑ +419% |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | ↑ +454% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Immunofluorescence per specimen initial single antibody stain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,007.00 | $13.80 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,007.00 | $10.03 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,007.00 | $9.74 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,007.00 | $12.99 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,007.00 | $15.64 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,007.00 | $25.17 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,007.00 | $16.24 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,007.00 | $12.99 – $423.12 |