Pressure velocity wire add ves at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$3,766.92
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.
$3,766.92
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.
$226.02 with Superior Health Plan vs $6,955.00 with Multiplan — 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 | STARPLUS | $226.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $226.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $226.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $226.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $226.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $249.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $489.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $489.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $489.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $489.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $527.37 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $527.37 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $614.01 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $625.31 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $662.98 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | BAV | $678.05 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | HMO | $847.56 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $866.39 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $881.46 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $892.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $892.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $904.06 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $941.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $960.56 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1,017.07 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,028.37 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,078.51 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,078.51 | ↓ -71% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↓ -70% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $1,130.08 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,318.42 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $1,318.42 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,506.77 | ↓ -60% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,619.78 | ↓ -57% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,695.11 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,695.11 | ↓ -55% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,007.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,071.81 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,071.81 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,260.15 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $2,260.15 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,260.15 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,260.15 | ↓ -40% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,358.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,448.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $3,013.54 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $3,013.54 | ↓ -20% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $3,013.54 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,088.87 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $3,201.88 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $3,201.88 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $3,390.23 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $3,390.23 | ↓ -10% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $5,000.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $6,955.00 | ↑ +85% |
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Pressure velocity wire add ves at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,208.05 | $625.61 – $3,128.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,050.51 | $422.06 – $3,075.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,127.73 | $425.55 – $2,659.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,208.05 | $588.81 – $3,128.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,050.51 | $658.21 – $3,075.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,050.51 | $1,059.43 – $3,075.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,127.73 | $709.24 – $3,191.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,208.05 | $588.81 – $3,128.07 |