Carbohydrate urine - sendout at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$762.76
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.
$762.76
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.
$4.53 with Texas Health Network vs $678.47 with Multiplan — 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 | $4.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $4.62 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $4.71 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $4.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $5.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $5.39 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| United | SmallGroup | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $5.50 | ↓ -99% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $5.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $5.55 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MCR | $5.55 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MCR | $5.61 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PPO | $5.67 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $5.67 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $5.67 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | POS | $5.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $5.67 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | SNP | $5.67 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $5.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $5.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $5.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $5.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $5.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $5.83 | ↓ -99% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $5.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $5.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $6.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Kindred Hospital | MGMCR | $6.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $6.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $7.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $7.97 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $7.97 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | HMO | $8.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | EPO | $8.53 | ↓ -99% |
| UTMB | MGMCR | $8.96 | ↓ -99% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $10.89 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $11.11 | ↓ -99% |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $11.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $11.82 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BAV | $12.27 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | HMO | $15.35 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | HIX | $15.90 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $16.45 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $16.50 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | PPO | $17.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $20.15 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | CSN | $22.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $24.15 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $26.79 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $26.79 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $26.79 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $28.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $28.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $28.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | PPO | $28.74 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $33.44 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $33.44 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $33.44 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $36.16 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $36.16 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $36.16 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $45.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $45.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $45.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $45.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $45.23 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | PPO | $73.47 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | HMO | $73.47 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $125.14 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $132.68 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $180.93 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $190.69 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $205.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $263.85 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $263.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $263.85 | ↓ -65% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $324.16 | ↓ -58% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $339.24 | ↓ -56% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $339.24 | ↓ -56% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $339.24 | ↓ -56% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $376.93 | ↓ -51% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $401.81 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $414.62 | ↓ -46% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $414.62 | ↓ -46% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $452.32 | ↓ -41% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $452.32 | ↓ -41% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $452.32 | ↓ -41% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $452.32 | ↓ -41% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $490.01 | ↓ -36% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $603.09 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $610.21 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $618.17 | ↓ -19% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $640.78 | ↓ -16% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $640.78 | ↓ -16% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $678.47 | ↓ -11% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $678.47 | ↓ -11% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $96.66 | $4.62 – $120.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $78.68 | $8.06 – $118.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $76.88 | $4.62 – $96.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $96.66 | $4.62 – $120.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $78.68 | $4.94 – $118.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $78.68 | $4.62 – $118.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $76.88 | $4.62 – $115.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $96.66 | $4.62 – $120.83 |