Ventilator initial day at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$18,156.30
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.
$18,156.30
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.
$300.00 with Texas Athletic Network vs $11,845.28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $789.69 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $789.69 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $789.69 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $789.69 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $789.69 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | PPO | $900.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | HMO | $900.27 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,087.00 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,198.49 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,500.43 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,500.43 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,500.43 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,710.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,710.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,710.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,710.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $1,842.60 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $1,842.60 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $2,184.80 | ↓ -88% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,566.48 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,658.61 | ↓ -85% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $3,119.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $3,119.26 | ↓ -83% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $3,290.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $3,487.78 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $4,224.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $4,224.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $4,224.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $4,357.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $4,501.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $4,501.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $4,501.21 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,606.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $5,264.57 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $5,277.73 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $5,277.73 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $5,277.73 | ↓ -71% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $5,659.41 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $5,698.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $5,698.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $5,698.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $5,922.64 | ↓ -67% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $5,922.64 | ↓ -67% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $5,922.64 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $6,580.71 | ↓ -64% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $7,015.04 | ↓ -61% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $7,238.78 | ↓ -60% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $7,238.78 | ↓ -60% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $7,896.85 | ↓ -57% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $7,896.85 | ↓ -57% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $7,896.85 | ↓ -57% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $7,896.85 | ↓ -57% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $8,554.92 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $10,529.14 | ↓ -42% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $10,529.14 | ↓ -42% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $10,792.36 | ↓ -41% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $11,187.21 | ↓ -38% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $11,187.21 | ↓ -38% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $11,845.28 | ↓ -35% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $11,845.28 | ↓ -35% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $4,594.20 | $1,788.44 – $1,788.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,002.58 | $567.40 – $2,503.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,501.44 | $309.05 – $2,252.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,879.12 | $375.82 – $2,348.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,002.58 | $534.02 – $2,503.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,501.44 | $481.96 – $2,252.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,501.44 | $775.74 – $3,235.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,879.12 | $589.57 – $2,818.67 |