Hydroxyurea 500 mg at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$6.80
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.
$6.80
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.
$0.41 with Superior Health Plan vs $9.84 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 | $0.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $0.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $0.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $0.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $0.41 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $0.45 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $0.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $0.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $0.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $0.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $0.95 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $0.95 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $0.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1.07 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1.13 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $1.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $1.19 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1.20 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $1.35 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1.45 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1.61 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1.61 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1.63 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $1.70 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1.84 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2.00 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2.00 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | HMO | $2.00 | ↓ -71% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $2.04 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2.38 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2.72 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2.92 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3.06 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3.62 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $3.74 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $3.74 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4.08 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4.08 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $4.08 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4.08 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $4.42 | ↓ -35% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $5.44 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $5.44 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $5.44 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $5.58 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $5.78 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $5.78 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $6.12 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $6.12 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | PPO | $9.84 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | HMO | $9.84 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | not published by hospital | — |
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Hydroxyurea 500 mg at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $55.92 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $52.10 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $54.19 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $51.84 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $35.37 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $55.00 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $2.85 – $2.85 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $2.77 – $2.95 |