Lev 1 hosp type b ed visit at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$564.49
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.
$564.49
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.
$50.33 with Texas Health Network vs $1,641.00 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $50.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $51.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $51.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $51.36 | ↓ -91% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $51.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $51.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $51.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $51.36 | ↓ -91% |
| United | MGMCD | $52.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $56.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $56.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $56.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $56.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | MCD | $64.20 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $77.04 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $93.71 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $99.35 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $106.52 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | BAV | $117.63 | ↓ -79% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $133.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $133.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $135.48 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $141.12 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | HMO | $147.04 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $150.30 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | PPO | $152.92 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $154.11 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $197.57 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | HMO | $208.53 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | PPO | $208.53 | ↓ -63% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $225.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $225.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $228.72 | ↓ -59% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $228.72 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $242.73 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $254.02 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $294.07 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $300.87 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $310.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $310.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Oscar | HIX | $318.00 | ↓ -44% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $338.69 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $338.69 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $338.69 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $338.69 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $366.92 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $451.59 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $451.59 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $462.88 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $479.82 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $479.82 | ↓ -15% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $491.00 | ↓ -13% |
| United | SmallGroup | $508.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $508.04 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $508.04 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $661.00 | ↑ +17% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $725.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $877.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $877.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $932.00 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $932.00 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,097.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,097.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,186.00 | ↑ +110% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,186.00 | ↑ +110% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,215.00 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,293.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,520.00 | ↑ +169% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,641.00 | ↑ +191% |
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Lev 1 hosp type b ed visit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $212.04 | $76.54 – $258.75 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $240.05 – $240.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $51.36 – $77.04 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $212.61 – $212.61 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $50.33 – $77.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $50.33 – $77.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $51.36 – $77.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $51.36 – $77.04 |