Betamethasone acetate and sodium phos 6 mg/ml suspension for injection at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$28.35
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.
$28.35
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.
$1.70 with Superior Health Plan vs $67.50 with Humana — 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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| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $1.88 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $3.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $3.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $3.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $3.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $3.97 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $3.97 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $4.71 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4.99 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $6.72 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $6.72 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $6.80 | ↓ -76% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $6.85 | ↓ -76% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $6.85 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $7.09 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $7.65 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $8.51 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $9.92 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $10.84 | ↓ -62% |
| United | SmallGroup | $11.40 | ↓ -60% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $11.40 | ↓ -60% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $11.40 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | BAV | $11.94 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $12.19 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $12.76 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | HMO | $14.93 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | PPO | $14.93 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $14.93 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $15.11 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $15.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $15.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | CSN | $16.67 | ↓ -41% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $17.01 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $17.01 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $17.01 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $17.01 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $18.05 | ↓ -36% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $18.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | PPO | $21.50 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $22.68 | ↓ -20% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $22.68 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $22.68 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $23.25 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $24.10 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $24.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $25.52 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $25.52 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | HMO | $67.50 | ↑ +138% |
| Humana | PPO | $67.50 | ↑ +138% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $122.37 | $21.29 – $21.29 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $75.12 | $4.98 – $189.48 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $5.69 | $1.15 – $8.10 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $27.24 | $8.36 – $138.82 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $75.12 | $6.03 – $189.48 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $75.12 | $6.03 – $189.48 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $5.69 | $4.95 – $8.36 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $198.67 | $6.85 – $67.50 |