Calcium acetate(phosphate binders) 667 mg tablet at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$5.09
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.
$5.09
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.
$0.04 with BCBS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $0.04 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BAV | $0.04 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $0.05 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $0.05 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | HMO | $0.05 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | PPO | $0.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $0.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | CSN | $0.05 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $0.05 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $0.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | PPO | $0.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $0.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $0.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $0.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $0.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $0.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $0.34 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $0.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $0.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $0.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $0.66 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $0.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $0.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $0.84 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $0.90 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $0.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1.21 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1.21 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1.22 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $1.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1.30 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1.35 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1.37 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1.39 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $1.53 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $1.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $1.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1.63 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1.63 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1.63 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1.74 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1.74 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1.74 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1.78 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1.78 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $1.78 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2.04 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2.20 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2.20 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2.20 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $2.29 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2.29 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $2.29 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $2.54 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2.80 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2.80 | ↓ -45% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $3.05 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $3.05 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $3.05 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $3.05 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $3.31 | ↓ -35% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $4.07 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $4.07 | ↓ -20% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $4.07 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $4.17 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $4.33 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $4.33 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $4.58 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $4.58 | ↓ -10% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↑ +5794% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↑ +9723% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↑ +11688% |
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Calcium acetate(phosphate binders) 667 mg tablet at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $6.61 | $0.04 – $0.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $9.54 | $0.04 – $0.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $5.40 | $0.04 – $0.05 |
| Ascension Seton Cedar Park Hospital | Cedar Park | $0.20 | $0.07 – $0.07 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.04 – $0.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $0.04 – $0.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $0.04 – $0.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $0.04 – $0.05 |