Cholesterol body fluid at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$1,903.09
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.
$1,903.09
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.
$36.08 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,522.47 with Cigna Behavioral Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $36.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $36.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $36.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $36.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $36.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | MCR | $39.87 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $78.17 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $78.17 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $78.17 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $78.17 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $84.18 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $84.18 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $98.01 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | CSN | $99.55 | ↓ -95% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $99.82 | ↓ -95% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $105.83 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.82 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BAV | $108.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | HIX | $117.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | PPO | $128.28 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | HMO | $135.29 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $138.30 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | PPO | $140.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $142.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $142.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $144.31 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $153.33 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $159.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $162.35 | ↓ -91% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $164.16 | ↓ -91% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $180.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | HMO | $191.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | PPO | $191.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $193.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $193.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $193.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $205.65 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $205.65 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $205.65 | ↓ -89% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $210.46 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $210.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $210.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $240.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $241.13 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $241.13 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $241.13 | ↓ -87% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $258.56 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $260.37 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $260.37 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $260.37 | ↓ -86% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $270.59 | ↓ -86% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $270.59 | ↓ -86% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $270.59 | ↓ -86% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $300.65 | ↓ -84% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $320.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $330.72 | ↓ -83% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $330.72 | ↓ -83% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $360.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $360.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $360.79 | ↓ -81% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $360.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $390.85 | ↓ -79% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $475.77 | ↓ -75% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $481.05 | ↓ -75% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $481.05 | ↓ -75% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $493.07 | ↓ -74% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $511.11 | ↓ -73% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $511.11 | ↓ -73% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $541.18 | ↓ -72% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $541.18 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,522.47 | ↓ -20% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Cholesterol body fluid at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $716.44 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $462.06 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $136.71 | $53.34 – $275.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $24.90 | $14.50 – $96.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $523.04 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $228.00 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston | Livingston | $24.90 | $12.76 – $96.56 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial San Augustine | San Augustine | $24.90 | $10.44 – $96.56 |