Interferon alfa-2b inj at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$188.36
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.
$188.36
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.
$11.30 with Superior Health Plan vs $332.62 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $11.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $11.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $11.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $11.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $11.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $12.49 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $21.50 | ↓ -89% |
| United | SmallGroup | $21.50 | ↓ -89% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $21.50 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $24.49 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $24.49 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $24.49 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $24.49 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $26.37 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $26.37 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior | EPO | $32.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $32.96 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $33.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $37.30 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $38.43 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $44.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $44.64 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $45.21 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $45.73 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BAV | $50.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $50.86 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $62.99 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $62.99 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | HMO | $62.99 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $65.93 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $75.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | CSN | $75.87 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $80.99 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $82.14 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $84.76 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | PPO | $97.81 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $100.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $103.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $103.60 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $113.02 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $113.02 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $113.02 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $122.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $141.27 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $154.46 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $160.11 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $160.11 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $160.11 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $169.52 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | PPO | $332.62 | ↑ +77% |
| Humana | HMO | $332.62 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,795.70 | $74.52 – $1,858.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,795.70 | $74.52 – $1,967.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,795.70 | $74.52 – $1,639.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,795.70 | $74.52 – $1,858.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,795.70 | $74.52 – $1,967.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,795.70 | $74.52 – $1,967.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,795.70 | $74.52 – $1,967.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,795.70 | $74.52 – $1,858.30 |