Skel musc relaxant 3 or more at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$242.89
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.
$242.89
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.
$0.05 with Aetna vs $218.60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $0.05 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $0.07 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $0.07 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $0.07 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $0.09 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $0.09 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $0.09 | ↓ -100% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $9.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $9.90 | ↓ -96% |
| United | MGMCD | $10.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $10.69 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $10.89 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $10.89 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $10.89 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $10.89 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MCD | $12.38 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $14.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $14.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $14.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $14.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $14.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $16.10 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | CSN | $35.95 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $38.86 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $39.59 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $40.32 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $43.72 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $46.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $47.36 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $49.06 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $54.65 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $55.86 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $56.84 | ↓ -77% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $60.72 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $61.94 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $65.58 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $66.31 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $85.01 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $85.01 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $97.16 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $104.44 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $109.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $109.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $109.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | PPO | $120.53 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | HMO | $120.53 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $121.44 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $129.46 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $133.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $133.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $145.73 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $145.73 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $145.73 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $145.73 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $157.88 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $194.31 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $194.31 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $199.17 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $206.46 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $206.46 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $218.60 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $218.60 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Skel musc relaxant 3 or more at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $3.68 | $2.68 – $21.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.05 – $12.38 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $0.05 – $12.38 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $0.05 – $12.38 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $0.05 – $12.38 |