Assay of tyrosine at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$385.19
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.
$385.19
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.
$8.75 with Texas Health Network vs $321.51 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 | $8.75 | ↓ -98% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $8.93 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $9.11 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $9.64 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $9.82 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $9.82 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $9.82 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $9.82 | ↓ -97% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $10.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| United | SmallGroup | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $10.63 | ↓ -97% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $10.68 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MCR | $10.72 | ↓ -97% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $10.74 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MCR | $10.84 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $10.95 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | POS | $10.95 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $10.95 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | SNP | $10.95 | ↓ -97% |
| WellCare | PPO | $10.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $10.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $11.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $11.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $11.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $11.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $11.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $11.27 | ↓ -97% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $11.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $11.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $11.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Kindred Hospital | MGMCR | $12.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $12.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $13.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $15.41 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $15.41 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | EPO | $16.48 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | HMO | $16.48 | ↓ -96% |
| UTMB | MGMCR | $17.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $21.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $21.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $21.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $21.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $21.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $21.43 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $21.47 | ↓ -94% |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $22.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $22.85 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BAV | $23.70 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $29.66 | ↓ -92% |
| Oscar | HIX | $30.72 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $31.21 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $31.78 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | PPO | $33.91 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $38.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | CSN | $43.21 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $46.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $51.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $51.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $51.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $55.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $55.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $55.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | PPO | $55.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $59.30 | ↓ -85% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $62.87 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $64.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $64.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $64.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $69.89 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $69.89 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $69.89 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $85.74 | ↓ -78% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $96.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $97.52 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $125.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $125.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $125.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $138.93 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | HMO | $138.93 | ↓ -64% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $153.61 | ↓ -60% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $160.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $160.75 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $160.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $178.62 | ↓ -54% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $190.40 | ↓ -51% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $196.48 | ↓ -49% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $196.48 | ↓ -49% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $214.34 | ↓ -44% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $214.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $214.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $214.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $232.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $285.78 | ↓ -26% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $292.93 | ↓ -24% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $303.65 | ↓ -21% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $303.65 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $308.15 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $321.51 | ↓ -17% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $321.51 | ↓ -17% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of tyrosine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $68.84 | $12.00 – $103.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $68.84 | $8.93 – $86.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $68.84 | $9.56 – $103.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $68.84 | $8.00 – $103.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $68.84 | $8.93 – $103.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $68.84 | $8.93 – $86.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $68.84 | $8.93 – $103.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $68.84 | $8.93 – $103.26 |