MRA without fol w/cont, pelvis at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$8,317.72
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.
$8,317.72
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.
$499.06 with Superior Health Plan vs $7,485.95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $499.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $499.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $499.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $499.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $499.06 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $672.06 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $699.43 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $828.27 | ↓ -90% |
| United | SmallGroup | $828.27 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | BAV | $851.53 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,081.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,081.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,081.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,081.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $1,164.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $1,164.48 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,298.29 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,439.57 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,463.92 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,580.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,696.81 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1,971.30 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1,971.30 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $1,996.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,127.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,204.20 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,304.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,669.99 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,669.99 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,669.99 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,739.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,844.66 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,844.66 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,844.66 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,911.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,327.09 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,335.41 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,335.41 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,335.41 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $3,576.62 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,601.57 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,601.57 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,601.57 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,742.97 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3,742.97 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,433.34 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $4,574.75 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $4,574.75 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4,990.63 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,990.63 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4,990.63 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $5,406.52 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $6,238.29 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $6,820.53 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $7,070.06 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $7,070.06 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $7,070.06 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $7,485.95 | ↓ -10% |
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MRA without fol w/cont, pelvis at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $1,234.49 | $538.41 – $2,645.33 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,459.15 | $458.22 – $4,169.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $555.90 | $400.00 – $3,335.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $1,459.15 | $538.41 – $4,169.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $1,459.15 | $538.41 – $4,169.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $1,459.15 | $538.41 – $4,169.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,459.15 | $538.41 – $4,169.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston | Livingston | $555.90 | $400.00 – $3,335.40 |