Unlisted surgical path px at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$1,257.28
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.
$1,257.28
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.
$49.76 with United vs $1,131.55 with Affiliated PPO — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $49.76 | ↓ -96% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $49.76 | ↓ -96% |
| United | SmallGroup | $49.76 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $75.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $75.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $75.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $75.44 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $75.44 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $99.93 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BAV | $110.32 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | HMO | $138.02 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | CSN | $141.11 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $147.92 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $152.85 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | PPO | $157.81 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $163.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $163.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $163.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $163.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $176.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $176.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | PPO | $181.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $208.71 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $221.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Oscar | HIX | $245.17 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $297.98 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $297.98 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $301.75 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $320.61 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $333.18 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $343.24 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $401.20 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $401.20 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $403.59 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $403.59 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $403.59 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $429.99 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $429.99 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $429.99 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $440.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $440.05 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $440.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $502.91 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $504.17 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $504.17 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $504.17 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $540.63 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $544.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $544.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $544.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $565.78 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $565.78 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $565.78 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $628.64 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $670.13 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $691.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $691.50 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $754.37 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $754.37 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $754.37 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $754.37 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $817.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $1,005.82 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,030.97 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,068.69 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,068.69 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $1,131.55 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,131.55 | ↓ -10% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Unlisted surgical path px at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $14.81 | $24.96 – $67.05 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $682.26 | $10.01 – $104.70 |
| Ascension Seton Edgar B. Davis (Ascension Seton) | Luling | $97.92 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Ascension Seton Highland Lakes (Ascension Seton) | Burnet | $97.92 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Ascension Seton Smithville (Ascension Seton) | Smithville | $87.48 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Dell Children's Medical Center (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $170.10 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $104.58 | $46.14 – $233.00 |
| MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL | Dallas | $558.28 | $49.76 – $130.72 |