Lev 2 hosp type b ed visit at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
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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.
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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.
$42.89 with BCBS vs $1,750.00 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $42.89 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $46.31 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $47.36 | — |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $50.33 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $51.36 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $51.36 | — |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $51.36 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $51.36 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $51.36 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $51.36 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $51.36 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $52.39 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $53.68 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $56.50 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $56.50 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $56.50 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $56.50 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $59.20 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $60.52 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $61.57 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $62.36 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $62.36 | — |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $63.15 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $64.20 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $71.83 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $77.04 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $83.96 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $83.96 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $92.09 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $92.09 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $105.25 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $105.25 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $113.14 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $118.40 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $140.24 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $144.72 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $144.72 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $157.87 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $157.87 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $157.87 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $171.03 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $197.34 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $215.76 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $223.65 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $223.65 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $223.65 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $236.81 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $528.00 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $709.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $940.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $940.00 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,000.00 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,001.00 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,001.00 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,144.00 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,177.00 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,177.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,215.00 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,225.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,272.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,272.00 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,293.00 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,520.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,641.00 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,750.00 | — |
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Lev 2 hosp type b ed visit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $1,507.03 | $50.33 – $77.04 |
| Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $344.07 | $73.59 – $417.28 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $387.12 – $387.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $51.36 – $77.04 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $342.88 – $342.88 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $50.33 – $77.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $51.36 – $77.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $51.36 – $77.04 |