Surgical pathology level 5 gross & microscopic examination at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$3,721.00
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.
$3,721.00
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.
$223.26 with Superior Health Plan vs $3,348.90 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 | STAR | $223.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $223.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $223.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $223.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $223.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | ↓ -92% |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $483.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $483.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $483.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $483.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $520.94 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $520.94 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | ↓ -85% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $617.69 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $654.90 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $725.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $784.65 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | CSN | $870.11 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $881.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $881.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $893.04 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $930.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $942.46 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $948.86 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,015.83 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,043.48 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,043.48 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,043.48 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,108.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,108.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,108.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,121.30 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,302.32 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,302.32 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,302.32 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,302.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $1,302.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,302.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,408.13 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,408.13 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,408.13 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,488.40 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,600.03 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,674.45 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,674.45 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,674.45 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,847.62 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,847.62 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $1,860.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,983.29 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,046.55 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,046.55 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,232.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $2,232.60 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,232.60 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,232.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2,418.65 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $2,976.80 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $2,976.80 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,051.22 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $3,162.85 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $3,162.85 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $3,348.90 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $3,348.90 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,114.69 | $1,091.13 – $1,091.13 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $476.75 | $35.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $519.16 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $491.47 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $476.75 | $35.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $519.16 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $519.16 | $26.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $491.47 | $36.00 – $890.45 |