Artery x-rays spine at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$18,254.18
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.
$18,254.18
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.
$245.92 with Texas Health Network vs $16,776.09 with BCBS — 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 | $245.92 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $248.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $248.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $248.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $248.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $250.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $250.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $250.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $250.94 | ↓ -99% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $250.94 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $253.56 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $268.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $276.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $276.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $276.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $276.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $313.68 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $484.48 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $509.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $509.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $509.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $509.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $509.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $524.32 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | PPO | $623.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $770.30 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,023.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,023.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,023.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,089.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,089.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,089.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,280.58 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,280.58 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,280.58 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,383.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,383.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,383.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,410.97 | ↓ -92% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,495.97 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $2,039.95 | ↓ -89% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,167.45 | ↓ -88% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,320.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,415.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,415.00 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,974.93 | ↓ -84% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $2,974.93 | ↓ -84% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $2,974.93 | ↓ -84% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,399.92 | ↓ -81% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,399.92 | ↓ -81% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $3,654.92 | ↓ -80% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,824.91 | ↓ -79% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $3,824.91 | ↓ -79% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3,824.91 | ↓ -79% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $4,249.90 | ↓ -77% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,530.40 | ↓ -75% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $4,563.55 | ↓ -75% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $4,674.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $4,674.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $5,099.89 | ↓ -72% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $5,099.89 | ↓ -72% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $5,099.89 | ↓ -72% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $5,099.89 | ↓ -72% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $5,524.88 | ↓ -70% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $6,799.85 | ↓ -63% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $6,969.84 | ↓ -62% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $7,224.84 | ↓ -60% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $7,224.84 | ↓ -60% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $7,649.83 | ↓ -58% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $7,649.83 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $8,089.29 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | BAV | $8,732.76 | ↓ -52% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $9,063.70 | ↓ -50% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $10,733.33 | ↓ -41% |
| United | SmallGroup | $10,733.33 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $14,603.34 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS | HMO | $15,627.05 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $16,224.55 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS | PPO | $16,776.09 | ↓ -8% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,255.45 | $875.91 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $6,385.15 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,255.45 | $268.51 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,255.45 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $6,385.15 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |