Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$6,784.09
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.
$6,784.09
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.
$300.00 with Texas Athletic Network vs $6,105.68 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 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $407.05 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $407.05 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $407.05 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $407.05 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $407.05 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $881.93 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $881.93 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $881.93 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $881.93 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $893.53 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $949.77 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $949.77 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | BAV | $985.17 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,004.05 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,085.45 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,126.16 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,194.00 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,233.38 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,233.38 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,233.38 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,288.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,322.90 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1,607.83 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1,607.83 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,628.18 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $1,696.02 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,729.94 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,797.78 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,852.06 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,164.80 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,164.80 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,177.69 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,177.69 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,177.69 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,320.16 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,320.16 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,320.16 | ↓ -66% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $2,374.43 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $2,374.43 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,374.43 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,713.64 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,713.64 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,720.42 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,720.42 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,720.42 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2,917.16 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,937.51 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,937.51 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,937.51 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $3,052.84 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,052.84 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3,052.84 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $3,392.05 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,615.92 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $3,731.25 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $3,731.25 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,070.45 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4,070.45 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4,070.45 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $4,070.45 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $4,409.66 | ↓ -35% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $5,427.27 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $5,427.27 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $5,562.95 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $5,766.48 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $5,766.48 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $6,105.68 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $6,105.68 | ↓ -10% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $4,440.70 | $893.53 – $893.53 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $537.18 | $1,302.11 – $1,302.11 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $493.50 | $100.00 – $1,057.50 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $462.00 | $100.00 – $1,320.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $535.80 | $100.00 – $3,214.80 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $6,108.60 | $893.53 – $893.53 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $462.00 | $100.00 – $1,320.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $462.00 | $100.00 – $1,320.00 |