Sept9 promoter methylation analysis at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$526.30
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.
$526.30
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.
$31.58 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,262.21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $31.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $31.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $31.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $31.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $31.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $87.37 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $92.63 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $126.31 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $134.21 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $143.68 | ↓ -73% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $158.05 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $161.28 | ↓ -69% |
| United | MGMCD | $164.51 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $174.18 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $177.41 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $177.41 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $177.41 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $177.41 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $184.21 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $184.21 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $184.21 | ↓ -65% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $188.16 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | MCR | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Renaissance IPA Radiology | COMM | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Kelsey Seybold | MGMCR | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| United | SmallGroup | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $192.00 | ↓ -64% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $192.96 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | MCR | $193.63 | ↓ -63% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $193.92 | ↓ -63% |
| United | MCR | $195.84 | ↓ -63% |
| WellCare | SNP | $197.76 | ↓ -62% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $197.76 | ↓ -62% |
| WellCare | PPO | $197.76 | ↓ -62% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $197.76 | ↓ -62% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $197.76 | ↓ -62% |
| WellCare | POS | $197.76 | ↓ -62% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | MCD | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $201.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $203.52 | ↓ -61% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $203.52 | ↓ -61% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $203.52 | ↓ -61% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $203.52 | ↓ -61% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $203.52 | ↓ -61% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $209.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $210.52 | ↓ -60% |
| Kindred Hospital | MGMCR | $220.80 | ↓ -58% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $226.31 | ↓ -57% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $230.40 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $236.83 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $236.83 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $236.83 | ↓ -55% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $249.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $263.15 | ↓ -50% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $278.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $278.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $280.52 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $289.46 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $289.46 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior | HMO | $297.60 | ↓ -43% |
| Superior | EPO | $297.60 | ↓ -43% |
| UTMB | MGMCR | $312.96 | ↓ -41% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $315.78 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $315.78 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $315.78 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $315.78 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $342.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Corvel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $380.16 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $387.84 | ↓ -26% |
| OMNI Healthcare | WORKERSCOMP | $403.20 | ↓ -23% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $412.80 | ↓ -22% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $421.04 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS | BAV | $428.16 | ↓ -19% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $431.57 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $447.35 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $447.35 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $473.67 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $473.67 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | HMO | $535.68 | ↑ +2% |
| Oscar | HIX | $554.88 | ↑ +5% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $574.08 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS | PPO | $612.48 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $703.33 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | CSN | $790.35 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $856.07 | ↑ +63% |
| Humana | PPO | $905.31 | ↑ +72% |
| Humana | HMO | $905.31 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $935.35 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $935.35 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $935.35 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $993.72 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $993.72 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $993.72 | ↑ +89% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,018.52 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,167.36 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,167.36 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,167.36 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,262.21 | ↑ +140% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,262.21 | ↑ +140% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,262.21 | ↑ +140% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Sept9 promoter methylation analysis at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $376.58 | $35.00 – $470.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $358.65 | $36.00 – $537.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $358.65 | $36.00 – $460.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $376.58 | $35.00 – $470.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $358.65 | $36.00 – $537.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $358.65 | $26.00 – $537.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $358.65 | $36.00 – $537.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $376.58 | $35.00 – $470.73 |