Strep b assay w/optic at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
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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.
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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.
$10.48 with Texas Health Network vs $712.36 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 |
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| Texas Health Network | MCD | $10.48 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $10.69 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $10.69 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $10.69 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $10.69 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $10.69 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $10.69 | — |
| Liberty County Indigent | LOCALGOV | $10.69 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $10.69 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $10.69 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $10.90 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $11.55 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $11.76 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $11.76 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $11.76 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $11.76 | — |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $12.48 | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $12.67 | — |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $12.73 | — |
| GEO Group - Joe Corley Detention Facility | GVT | $12.73 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $12.73 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $12.73 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $12.73 | — |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $12.73 | — |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $12.73 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $12.73 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $12.73 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $12.73 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $12.73 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $12.73 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $12.73 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $12.73 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $12.73 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $12.73 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $12.73 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $12.84 | — |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $12.86 | — |
| United | MCR | $12.98 | — |
| WellCare | SNP | $13.11 | — |
| WellCare | PPO | $13.11 | — |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $13.11 | — |
| WellCare | PFFS | $13.11 | — |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $13.11 | — |
| WellCare | POS | $13.11 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $13.36 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $13.37 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $13.37 | — |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $13.37 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $13.37 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $13.37 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $13.37 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $13.37 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $13.37 | — |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $13.37 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $13.49 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $13.49 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $13.49 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $13.49 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $13.49 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $13.78 | — |
| Molina | MGMCR | $13.88 | — |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $15.28 | — |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $16.55 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $18.46 | — |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $18.46 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $19.73 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $19.73 | — |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $25.21 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $25.71 | — |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $26.73 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $27.37 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $28.39 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $35.52 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $35.96 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $36.79 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $38.06 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $40.61 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $46.61 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $47.49 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $47.49 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $47.49 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $47.49 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $47.49 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $52.96 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $57.36 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $61.98 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $61.98 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $61.98 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $65.85 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $65.85 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $65.85 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $68.24 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $77.36 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $77.36 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $77.36 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $83.65 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $83.65 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $83.65 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $139.31 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $160.14 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $160.14 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $161.47 | — |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $189.96 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $216.08 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $277.03 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $277.03 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $340.35 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $356.18 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $356.18 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $356.18 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $421.87 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $435.33 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $435.33 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $474.91 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $474.91 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $474.91 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $514.48 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $593.63 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $649.04 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $672.78 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $672.78 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $672.78 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $712.36 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Strep b assay w/optic at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont | Beaumont | $172.59 | $6.37 – $55.93 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $367.00 | $10.48 – $52.96 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $104.20 | $12.73 – $48.14 |
| Ascension Seton Cedar Park Hospital | Cedar Park | $183.96 | $10.69 – $229.95 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $11.46 – $49.01 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen | Allen | not published | $10.69 – $23.54 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $27.78 – $55.50 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $10.69 – $52.96 |