Ihc/icc per specimen each multiplex antibody stain at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$953.46
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.
$953.46
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.
$57.21 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,395.13 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 | $57.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $57.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $57.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $57.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $57.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $123.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $123.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $123.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $123.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $133.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $133.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $158.27 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $167.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $185.92 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $225.97 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $225.97 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $228.83 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $243.13 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $260.29 | ↓ -73% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | ↓ -69% |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | ↓ -69% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | ↓ -69% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $333.71 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $333.71 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $333.71 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $381.38 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $409.99 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $429.06 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $429.06 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $429.06 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $476.73 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $508.19 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $508.56 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $524.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $524.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | CSN | $543.37 | ↓ -43% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $572.08 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $572.08 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $572.08 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $572.08 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $588.55 | ↓ -38% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $619.75 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $676.32 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $676.32 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $676.32 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | PPO | $700.23 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $718.52 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $718.52 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $718.52 | ↓ -25% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $762.77 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $781.84 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | ↓ -17% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $810.44 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $810.44 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $844.08 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $844.08 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $844.08 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | ↓ -11% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $858.11 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $858.11 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | ↓ -5% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $912.66 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $912.66 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $912.66 | ↓ -4% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,395.13 | ↑ +46% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,395.13 | ↑ +46% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Ihc/icc per specimen each multiplex antibody stain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $311.59 | $35.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $276.19 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $237.00 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $311.59 | $35.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $276.19 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $276.19 | $26.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $237.00 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $311.59 | $35.00 – $890.45 |