Rib X-ray (3 views, both sides) at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$3,519.00
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.
$3,519.00
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.
$43.22 with Texas Health Network vs $3,167.10 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 | $43.22 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $44.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $44.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $44.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $44.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $44.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $44.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $44.10 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $44.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $47.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $48.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $48.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $48.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $48.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $55.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $66.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $66.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $66.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $110.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $119.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | PPO | $141.77 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $211.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $211.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $211.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $211.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $211.14 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -93% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $248.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $248.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $248.76 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $264.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $264.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $264.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $311.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $311.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $311.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $336.48 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $336.48 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $336.48 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $422.54 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | PPO | $464.01 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $619.34 | ↓ -82% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $844.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $897.35 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $960.69 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,165.84 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,165.84 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,231.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,231.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,407.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,407.60 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,513.17 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,583.55 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,583.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,583.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,822.84 | ↓ -48% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,935.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,935.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,111.40 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,111.40 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,111.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,287.35 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $2,639.25 | ↓ -25% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $2,885.58 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $2,991.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $2,991.15 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $2,991.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $3,167.10 | ↓ -10% |
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Rib X-ray (3 views, both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $721.35 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $381.04 | $44.10 – $476.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $445.78 | $91.76 – $668.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $425.96 | $44.10 – $532.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $381.04 | $44.10 – $476.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $445.78 | $47.19 – $668.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $445.78 | $44.10 – $668.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $425.96 | $44.10 – $638.95 |