Ihc/icc per specimen each additional single antibody stain at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
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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.
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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.
$5.64 with Superior Health Plan vs $657.64 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 | STARPLUS | $5.64 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $5.64 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $5.64 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $5.64 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $5.64 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $6.24 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $12.23 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $12.23 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $12.23 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $12.23 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $13.17 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $13.17 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $15.62 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $16.56 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $18.34 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $22.29 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $22.29 | — |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $22.58 | — |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $23.52 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $23.99 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $25.40 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $25.68 | — |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $28.22 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $32.92 | — |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $32.92 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $32.92 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $37.63 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $40.45 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $42.33 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $42.33 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $42.33 | — |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $47.03 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $50.14 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $51.74 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $51.74 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $56.44 | — |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $56.44 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $56.44 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $56.44 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $61.15 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $65.25 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $65.25 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $65.25 | — |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $75.26 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $75.26 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $75.26 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $77.14 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $79.96 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $79.96 | — |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $84.66 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $84.66 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $130.31 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $143.86 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $179.98 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $192.88 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $205.79 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $232.18 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $243.95 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $264.23 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $308.77 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $308.77 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $308.77 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $314.38 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $328.04 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $328.04 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $328.04 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $385.36 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $385.36 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $385.36 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $416.67 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $416.67 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $416.67 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $657.64 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $657.64 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Ihc/icc per specimen each additional single antibody stain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $541.08 | $248.36 – $248.36 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $217.04 | $28.00 – $157.40 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $153.27 | $20.34 – $148.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $117.90 | $19.77 – $333.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $217.04 | $26.36 – $234.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $153.27 | $31.73 – $407.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $153.27 | $26.00 – $148.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $117.90 | $32.95 – $333.52 |