Echo transesophageal at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$5,143.42
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.
$5,143.42
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.
$300.00 with Texas Athletic Network vs $4,629.08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $308.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $308.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $308.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $308.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $308.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $352.32 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $353.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $353.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $353.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $353.04 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $359.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $359.51 | ↓ -93% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $359.51 | ↓ -93% |
| United | MGMCD | $360.10 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $381.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $395.46 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $395.46 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $395.46 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $395.46 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | MCD | $449.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | CSN | $761.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $822.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $853.81 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $905.24 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $977.25 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,002.97 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,163.78 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1,218.99 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1,218.99 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,234.42 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,283.14 | ↓ -75% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $1,285.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,311.57 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,363.01 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,404.15 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,606.41 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,606.41 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,606.41 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,651.04 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,651.04 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,651.04 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,759.05 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,759.05 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,759.05 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,800.20 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,800.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $1,800.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,057.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,057.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,062.51 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,062.51 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,062.51 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,094.49 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,094.49 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2,211.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,227.10 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,227.10 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,227.10 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $2,314.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $2,314.54 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,314.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $2,571.71 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,741.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,828.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,828.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $3,086.05 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $3,086.05 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $3,086.05 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $3,086.05 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $3,343.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $4,114.74 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $4,114.74 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $4,217.60 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $4,371.91 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $4,371.91 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $4,629.08 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $4,629.08 | ↓ -10% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,281.68 | $359.51 – $2,167.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,734.10 | $356.93 – $2,601.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,820.80 | $359.51 – $2,276.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,281.68 | $359.51 – $2,167.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,734.10 | $384.68 – $2,601.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,734.10 | $359.51 – $2,601.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,820.80 | $359.51 – $2,731.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,281.68 | $359.51 – $2,167.62 |