Pentamidine non-comp unit at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$352.30
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.
$352.30
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.
$21.14 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,182.83 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 | CHIP | $21.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $21.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $21.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $21.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $21.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $23.36 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $45.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $45.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $45.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $45.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $49.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $49.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $58.48 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $62.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $79.50 | ↓ -77% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $79.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $83.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $83.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $84.55 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $95.12 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $105.69 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $123.31 | ↓ -65% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $151.49 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $158.53 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $187.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $193.76 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $193.76 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | CSN | $199.34 | ↓ -43% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $211.38 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $211.38 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $211.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $211.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $215.81 | ↓ -39% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $229.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | PPO | $256.99 | ↓ -27% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $271.29 | ↓ -23% |
| United | SmallGroup | $271.29 | ↓ -23% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $271.29 | ↓ -23% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $281.84 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $281.84 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $288.89 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $294.39 | ↓ -16% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $299.45 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $299.45 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $317.07 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $317.07 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | BAV | $324.43 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | HMO | $405.54 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS | PPO | $405.54 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $405.54 | ↑ +15% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,182.83 | ↑ +236% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,182.83 | ↑ +236% |
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Pentamidine non-comp unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $846.88 | $79.50 – $1,182.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $531.69 | $199.34 – $1,182.83 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $318.90 | $198.44 – $653.53 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $578.27 – $578.27 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $198.44 – $599.71 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $199.34 – $1,182.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $79.50 – $1,182.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $79.50 – $1,182.83 |