Vital capacity test at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
$366.10
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.
$366.10
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.
$21.97 with Superior Health Plan vs $600.00 with Texas Athletic Network — 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 | STARKids | $21.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $21.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $21.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $21.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $21.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $47.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $47.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $47.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $47.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $51.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $51.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $54.18 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $58.58 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $64.43 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $69.56 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $71.39 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $74.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $86.77 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $86.77 | ↓ -76% |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $87.86 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $93.36 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $97.02 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $99.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $117.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $117.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $117.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $125.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $125.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $125.21 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $128.13 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $128.13 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $146.44 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $146.44 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $146.81 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $146.81 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $146.81 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $157.42 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $158.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $158.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $158.52 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $164.75 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $164.75 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $164.75 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $195.13 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $201.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $201.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | PPO | $203.37 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | HMO | $203.37 | ↓ -44% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $219.66 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $219.66 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $219.66 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $237.97 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $274.57 | ↓ -25% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $300.20 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $311.19 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $311.19 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $311.19 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $323.74 | ↓ -12% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $329.49 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | BAV | $356.94 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS | HMO | $446.87 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $455.17 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS | PPO | $463.47 | ↑ +27% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↑ +64% |
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Vital capacity test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $200.99 | $56.95 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $197.26 | $40.60 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $207.11 | $41.42 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $200.99 | $53.60 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $197.26 | $63.32 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $197.26 | $101.92 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $207.11 | $69.04 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $200.99 | $53.60 – $386.96 |