Injection, pentamidine iseth at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$23.80
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.
$23.80
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.
$1.43 with Superior Health Plan vs $503.17 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 |
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| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $1.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $1.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $1.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $1.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $1.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $1.58 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $3.09 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $3.09 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $3.09 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $3.09 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $3.33 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $3.33 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $3.95 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $4.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | HMO | $4.17 | ↓ -82% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4.19 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $4.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $5.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $5.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $5.71 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $5.95 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $6.43 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $7.14 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $8.33 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $9.52 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $10.23 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $10.71 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $12.69 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $13.09 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $13.09 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $14.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $14.28 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $14.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $14.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $15.47 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $19.04 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $19.04 | ↓ -20% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $19.04 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $19.52 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $20.23 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $20.23 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $21.42 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $21.42 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $203.78 | ↑ +756% |
| BCBS | BAV | $224.58 | ↑ +844% |
| Cigna | CSN | $241.15 | ↑ +913% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $261.08 | ↑ +997% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $280.72 | ↑ +1079% |
| BCBS | PPO | $280.72 | ↑ +1079% |
| BCBS | HMO | $280.72 | ↑ +1079% |
| Cigna | PPO | $310.91 | ↑ +1206% |
| Humana | HMO | $503.17 | ↑ +2014% |
| Humana | PPO | $503.17 | ↑ +2014% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,727.48 | $203.78 – $503.17 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $782.53 | $388.85 – $415.12 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $400.28 – $400.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $241.15 – $503.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $241.15 – $503.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $203.78 – $503.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $203.78 – $503.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $203.78 – $503.17 |