Platelets irradiated ea unit at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$170.80
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.
$170.80
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.
$10.25 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,744.82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $10.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $10.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $10.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $10.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $10.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $23.91 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $23.91 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $25.28 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $27.33 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $27.84 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $30.06 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | BAV | $30.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $32.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $33.31 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $34.84 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $38.43 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $39.28 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $39.97 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $40.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $40.48 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $40.99 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $43.55 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $46.63 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $59.78 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $59.78 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $68.32 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $68.32 | ↓ -60% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $69.63 | ↓ -59% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $69.63 | ↓ -59% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $69.63 | ↓ -59% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $69.63 | ↓ -59% |
| United | MGMCD | $71.02 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $73.44 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $75.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $76.86 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $76.86 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $76.86 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $91.04 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $93.94 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $93.94 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $102.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $102.48 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $102.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $111.02 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $128.10 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $140.06 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $145.18 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $145.18 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $145.18 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $153.72 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $224.71 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $298.83 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $298.83 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $298.83 | ↑ +75% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $317.48 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $317.48 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $317.48 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $372.96 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $372.96 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $372.96 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $403.26 | ↑ +136% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $403.26 | ↑ +136% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $403.26 | ↑ +136% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↑ +193% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↑ +251% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,744.82 | ↑ +922% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,744.82 | ↑ +922% |
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Platelets irradiated ea unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $80.64 | $34.56 – $115.20 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $1,807.41 | $206.34 – $785.94 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $4,826.69 – $4,826.69 |