Carboprost tromethamine 250 mcg/ml intramuscular solution at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$581.70
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.
$581.70
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.
$22.61 with United vs $523.53 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 |
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| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $22.61 | ↓ -96% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22.61 | ↓ -96% |
| United | SmallGroup | $22.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $34.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $34.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $34.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $34.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $34.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $75.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $75.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $75.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $75.62 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $81.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $81.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $86.09 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $93.07 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $94.82 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $96.56 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $102.38 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | BAV | $104.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $110.52 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $130.88 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $133.79 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $136.12 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $137.86 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $137.86 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $139.61 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $145.43 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | HMO | $185.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $185.62 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $203.59 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $232.68 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $250.13 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $261.77 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $310.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $319.94 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $319.94 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $349.02 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $349.02 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $349.02 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $349.02 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $378.11 | ↓ -35% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $465.36 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $465.36 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $476.99 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $494.45 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $494.45 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $523.53 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $523.53 | ↓ -10% |
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Carboprost tromethamine 250 mcg/ml intramuscular solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $1,182.91 | not published |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $429.01 | $22.61 – $98.78 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $726.58 | $22.61 – $98.78 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $93.16 | $22.61 – $22.61 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $437.68 | $22.61 – $22.61 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,915.00 | $22.61 – $98.78 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $1,182.91 | not published |
| Covenant Hospital Plainview | Plainview | $1,182.91 | not published |