Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$12,383.32
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.
$12,383.32
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 $11,144.99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $743.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $743.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $743.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $743.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $743.00 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,593.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,609.83 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,609.83 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,609.83 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,609.83 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $1,733.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $1,733.66 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,756.52 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,832.73 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,981.33 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $2,055.63 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,179.46 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | HMO | $2,199.05 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,199.05 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2,199.05 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,352.83 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,414.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $2,934.85 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $2,934.85 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $2,972.00 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $3,095.83 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $3,157.75 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $3,281.58 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $3,380.65 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $3,951.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $3,951.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $3,975.05 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $3,975.05 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $3,975.05 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $4,235.10 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $4,235.10 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $4,235.10 | ↓ -66% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $4,334.16 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $4,334.16 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,334.16 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,953.33 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $4,953.33 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $4,965.71 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $4,965.71 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $4,965.71 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $5,324.83 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $5,361.98 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $5,361.98 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $5,361.98 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $5,572.49 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $5,572.49 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $5,572.49 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $6,191.66 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $6,600.31 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $6,810.83 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $6,810.83 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $7,429.99 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $7,429.99 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $7,429.99 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $7,429.99 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $8,049.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $9,906.66 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $9,906.66 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $10,154.32 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $10,525.82 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $10,525.82 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $11,144.99 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $11,144.99 | ↓ -10% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $4,974.84 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $2,850.54 | $2,321.60 – $2,321.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $18,772.48 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $1,356.90 | $100.00 – $8,141.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |