Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$3,837.12
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.
$3,837.12
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.
$39.30 with Texas Health Network vs $3,453.41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $39.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $40.10 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $40.90 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $43.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $44.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $44.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $44.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $44.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $50.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | CSN | $106.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $115.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | PPO | $137.06 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $173.04 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | ↓ -95% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $229.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $229.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $229.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $230.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $230.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $230.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $230.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $230.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $244.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $244.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $244.64 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $287.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $287.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $287.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $310.88 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $310.88 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $310.88 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | HMO | $415.29 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | PPO | $415.29 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $422.54 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | PPO | $464.01 | ↓ -88% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $675.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $782.77 | ↓ -80% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $920.91 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $978.47 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,047.53 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,342.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,342.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,534.85 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,534.85 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,649.96 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,726.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,726.70 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,726.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,045.18 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,110.42 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,110.42 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,302.27 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,302.27 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,302.27 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,494.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $2,877.84 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,146.44 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $3,261.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $3,261.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $3,261.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $3,453.41 | ↓ -10% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $620.07 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $384.07 | $79.05 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $474.69 | $40.10 – $593.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $384.07 | $42.91 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $384.07 | $40.10 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $474.69 | $40.10 – $712.03 |