Unlisted transfusion med px at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
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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.
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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.
$24.67 with United vs $90.51 with Cigna — 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 |
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| United | AllPayerAppendix | $24.67 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $24.67 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $24.67 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $46.44 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $51.27 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $64.14 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $68.74 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $70.23 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $73.34 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $76.07 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $90.51 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Unlisted transfusion med px at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $319.88 | $88.51 – $88.51 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $18.20 | $13.25 – $93.60 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $18.20 | $22.71 – $88.40 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $18.20 | $22.71 – $115.44 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $18.20 | $22.71 – $93.60 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $313.82 | $22.13 – $58.11 |
| Ascension Seton Edgar B. Davis (Ascension Seton) | Luling | $225.72 | $12.27 – $208.43 |
| Adventhealth Central Texas | Killeen | $319.88 | $29.06 – $88.51 |