Microsatellite instability at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$1,047.52
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.
$1,047.52
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.
$62.85 with Superior Health Plan vs $3,867.93 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 | STAR | $62.85 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $62.85 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $62.85 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $62.85 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $62.85 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $173.89 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $184.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $251.40 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $261.88 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $285.97 | ↓ -73% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $286.93 | ↓ -73% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $292.79 | ↓ -72% |
| United | MGMCD | $298.65 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $316.21 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $322.07 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $322.07 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $322.07 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $322.07 | ↓ -69% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $341.59 | ↓ -67% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| United | SmallGroup | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $348.56 | ↓ -67% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $350.30 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | MCR | $351.52 | ↓ -66% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $352.05 | ↓ -66% |
| United | MCR | $355.53 | ↓ -66% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $359.02 | ↓ -66% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $359.02 | ↓ -66% |
| WellCare | PPO | $359.02 | ↓ -66% |
| WellCare | SNP | $359.02 | ↓ -66% |
| WellCare | POS | $359.02 | ↓ -66% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $359.02 | ↓ -66% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | MCD | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $365.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $366.63 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $366.63 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $366.63 | ↓ -65% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $369.47 | ↓ -65% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $369.47 | ↓ -65% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $369.47 | ↓ -65% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $369.47 | ↓ -65% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $369.47 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $379.93 | ↓ -64% |
| Kindred Hospital | MGMCR | $400.84 | ↓ -62% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $418.27 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $419.01 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $450.43 | ↓ -57% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $453.13 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $471.38 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $471.38 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $471.38 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $505.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $505.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $523.76 | ↓ -50% |
| Superior | HMO | $540.27 | ↓ -48% |
| Superior | EPO | $540.27 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $558.33 | ↓ -47% |
| UTMB | MGMCR | $568.15 | ↓ -46% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $576.14 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $576.14 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $628.51 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $628.51 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $628.51 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $628.51 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $680.89 | ↓ -35% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $690.15 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $704.09 | ↓ -33% |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $731.98 | ↓ -30% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $749.40 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | BAV | $777.29 | ↓ -26% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $838.02 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $838.02 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $858.97 | ↓ -18% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $868.67 | ↓ -17% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $890.39 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $890.39 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $942.77 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $942.77 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | HMO | $972.48 | ↓ -7% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,007.34 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,042.19 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,111.91 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,276.87 | ↑ +22% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,434.36 | ↑ +37% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,553.61 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,698.07 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,698.07 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,698.07 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,804.04 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,804.04 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,804.04 | ↑ +72% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,848.43 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,119.28 | ↑ +102% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,119.28 | ↑ +102% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,119.28 | ↑ +102% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,291.47 | ↑ +119% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,291.47 | ↑ +119% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,291.47 | ↑ +119% |
| Humana | HMO | $3,867.93 | ↑ +269% |
| Humana | PPO | $3,867.93 | ↑ +269% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $603.68 | $10.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $719.78 | $12.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $522.84 | $12.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $603.68 | $10.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $719.78 | $12.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $719.78 | $8.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $522.84 | $12.00 – $836.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $603.68 | $10.00 – $836.54 |