Neck Airway (Soft Tissue) X-ray at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$2,126.00
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.
$2,126.00
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.
$30.78 with Texas Health Network vs $1,913.40 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 | $30.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $31.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $31.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $31.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $31.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $31.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $31.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $31.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $32.37 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $34.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $34.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $34.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $34.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $34.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $39.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $47.12 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $47.12 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $47.12 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $83.51 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $90.37 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | PPO | $107.43 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $127.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $127.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $127.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $127.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $127.56 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $140.47 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $153.71 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $177.98 | ↓ -92% |
| United | SmallGroup | $182.03 | ↓ -91% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $182.03 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $187.85 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $187.85 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $187.85 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $199.87 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $199.87 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $199.87 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $235.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $235.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $235.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $254.09 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $254.09 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $254.09 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | HMO | $271.35 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $300.88 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | PPO | $330.41 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $374.18 | ↓ -82% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $510.24 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $542.13 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $580.40 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $704.34 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $704.34 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $744.10 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $744.10 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $850.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $850.40 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $914.18 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $956.70 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $956.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $956.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,101.27 | ↓ -48% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,169.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,169.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,275.60 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,275.60 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,275.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,381.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,594.50 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,743.32 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,807.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,807.10 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,807.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,913.40 | ↓ -10% |
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Neck Airway (Soft Tissue) X-ray at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $520.32 | $307.27 – $307.27 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $191.89 | $31.41 – $239.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $279.65 | $57.56 – $419.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $237.76 | $31.41 – $297.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $191.89 | $31.41 – $239.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $279.65 | $33.61 – $419.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $279.65 | $31.41 – $419.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $237.76 | $31.41 – $356.64 |