Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section first tissue block at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$1,951.39
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.
$1,951.39
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.
$117.08 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,756.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $117.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $117.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $117.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $117.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $117.08 | ↓ -94% |
| United | SmallGroup | $149.16 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $149.16 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $149.16 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $156.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | CSN | $171.16 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $185.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $207.94 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $207.94 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $207.94 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | PPO | $220.58 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $220.92 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $220.92 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $220.92 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $253.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $253.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $253.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $253.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $259.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $259.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $259.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $273.19 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $273.19 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $280.61 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $280.61 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $280.61 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $289.87 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | BAV | $320.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $323.93 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | HMO | $335.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | PPO | $335.64 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $343.44 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $380.52 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $400.37 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $429.07 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | PPO | $457.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $462.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $462.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $468.33 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $487.85 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $497.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $532.73 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $682.99 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $682.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $682.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $780.56 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $839.10 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $878.13 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $878.13 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $878.13 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $975.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,040.09 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,073.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,073.26 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,170.83 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,170.83 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,170.83 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $1,170.83 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,268.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,561.11 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $1,561.11 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,600.14 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,658.68 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,658.68 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,756.25 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $1,756.25 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $297.87 | $35.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $282.52 | $36.00 – $423.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $210.80 | $36.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $297.87 | $35.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $282.52 | $36.00 – $423.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $282.52 | $26.00 – $423.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $210.80 | $36.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $297.87 | $35.00 – $423.12 |