Compatibility test each unit electronic at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$429.69
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.
$429.69
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.
$25.78 with Superior Health Plan vs $457.76 with BCBS — 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 | CHIP | $25.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $25.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $25.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $25.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $25.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $55.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $55.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $55.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $55.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $60.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $60.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $71.33 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $75.63 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $83.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $101.84 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $101.84 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $103.13 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $106.96 | ↓ -75% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $107.42 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $109.57 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | CSN | $112.93 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $117.31 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $122.32 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $142.24 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $142.24 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $142.24 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | PPO | $145.53 | ↓ -66% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $149.16 | ↓ -65% |
| United | SmallGroup | $149.16 | ↓ -65% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $149.16 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $150.39 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $150.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $150.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $151.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $151.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $151.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $171.88 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $177.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $177.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $177.52 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $184.77 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $191.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $191.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $191.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $193.36 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $193.36 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $193.36 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $214.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $229.02 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $236.33 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $236.33 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $257.81 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $257.81 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $257.81 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $257.81 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $279.30 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $289.87 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | PPO | $299.61 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | HMO | $299.61 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS | BAV | $320.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $343.75 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $343.75 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $352.35 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $365.24 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $365.24 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $386.72 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $386.72 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | HMO | $400.37 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $429.07 | ↓ -0% |
| BCBS | PPO | $457.76 | ↑ +7% |
| 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 | $188.22 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $211.75 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $211.75 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $188.22 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $211.75 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $211.75 | $8.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $211.75 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $188.22 | $10.00 – $423.12 |