Fresh frozen plasma frozen within 8 hours of collection each unit at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$859.45
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.
$859.45
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.
$31.28 with Superior Health Plan vs $705.27 with Humana — 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 | STARKids | $31.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $31.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $31.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $31.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $31.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $67.76 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $67.76 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $67.76 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $67.76 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $72.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $72.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | CSN | $77.15 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $83.40 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $84.97 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $86.53 | ↓ -90% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $91.74 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | BAV | $93.83 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | PPO | $99.04 | ↓ -88% |
| Oscar | HIX | $101.65 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | HMO | $117.28 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $119.89 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | PPO | $121.97 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $123.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $123.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $125.10 | ↓ -85% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $132.92 | ↓ -85% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $142.30 | ↓ -83% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $182.44 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $182.44 | ↓ -79% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $182.44 | ↓ -79% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $208.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $208.50 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $214.86 | ↓ -75% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $224.14 | ↓ -74% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $234.57 | ↓ -73% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $234.57 | ↓ -73% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $234.57 | ↓ -73% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $260.63 | ↓ -70% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $277.83 | ↓ -68% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $286.69 | ↓ -67% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $286.69 | ↓ -67% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $312.76 | ↓ -64% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $312.76 | ↓ -64% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $312.76 | ↓ -64% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $312.76 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $313.06 | ↓ -64% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $338.82 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $416.33 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $416.33 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $416.33 | ↓ -52% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $417.01 | ↓ -51% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $427.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $442.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $442.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $442.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $443.07 | ↓ -48% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $443.07 | ↓ -48% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $469.13 | ↓ -45% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $469.13 | ↓ -45% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $519.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $519.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $519.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $561.82 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $561.82 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $561.82 | ↓ -35% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $687.56 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | PPO | $705.27 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | HMO | $705.27 | ↓ -18% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Fresh frozen plasma frozen within 8 hours of collection each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $21.84 | not published |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $405.28 | $313.06 – $705.27 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $136.85 | $88.00 – $293.25 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $162.75 | $94.00 – $465.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $96.25 | $0.13 – $1.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $81.45 | $100.00 – $468.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $162.75 | $88.00 – $465.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $162.75 | $88.00 – $465.00 |