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225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
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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.
$300.00 with Texas Athletic Network vs $43,890.00 with Curative Administrators — 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 Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,643.00 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $3,052.60 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $3,052.60 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $3,052.60 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $3,052.60 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $3,287.42 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $3,287.42 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $3,475.27 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $3,511.00 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $3,511.00 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,730.00 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,730.00 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $3,757.05 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $3,792.00 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $3,827.49 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $3,897.94 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $4,028.00 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4,132.75 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $4,226.68 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $4,390.00 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $4,390.00 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $4,461.49 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $4,740.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $4,742.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $4,742.00 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $5,000.00 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $5,120.00 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $5,283.35 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $5,400.76 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $5,494.68 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $5,565.13 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $5,565.13 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $5,591.00 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $5,591.00 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $5,591.00 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $5,591.00 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $5,591.00 | — |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $5,635.57 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $7,874.00 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $8,218.54 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $8,798.00 | — |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $9,115.00 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $9,392.62 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $10,097.07 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $10,106.00 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $10,106.00 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $10,566.70 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $12,515.67 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $12,914.85 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $12,914.85 | — |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $13,910.00 | — |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $14,088.93 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $14,088.93 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $14,088.93 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $14,088.93 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $15,263.01 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $15,400.00 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $17,742.00 | — |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $18,785.24 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $19,254.87 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $19,959.32 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $19,959.32 | — |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $21,133.40 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $21,133.40 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $21,231.00 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22,000.00 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $29,288.00 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $37,284.00 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $43,890.00 | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,557.78 | $1,574.70 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,958.33 | $814.76 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,251.46 | $850.29 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,557.78 | $1,482.08 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,958.33 | $1,270.62 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,958.33 | $2,045.14 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $4,251.46 | $1,417.15 – $18,500.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $5,557.78 | $1,482.08 – $18,500.61 |