X-ray cervical spine >= 6 views at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$2,598.56
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.
$2,598.56
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.
$61.55 with Texas Health Network vs $2,338.70 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 Health Network | MCD | $61.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $62.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $62.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $62.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $62.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $62.81 | ↓ -98% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $62.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $62.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $62.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $62.81 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $63.74 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $67.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $69.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $69.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $69.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $69.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $78.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $155.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $155.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $155.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $155.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $155.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | CSN | $174.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $188.86 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BAV | $212.95 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | PPO | $224.51 | ↓ -91% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -91% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $284.55 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $378.19 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $378.19 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $378.19 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $395.64 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $402.30 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $402.30 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $402.30 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | PPO | $409.09 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $431.36 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $457.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $473.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $473.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $473.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $511.22 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $511.22 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $511.22 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $623.65 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $649.64 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | PPO | $657.62 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | HMO | $657.62 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $662.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $709.41 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $909.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $909.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $909.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,039.42 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,039.42 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,117.38 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,169.35 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,169.35 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,169.35 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $1,299.28 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,385.03 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,429.21 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,429.21 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,559.14 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,559.14 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $1,559.14 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,559.14 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,689.06 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $2,078.85 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $2,078.85 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $2,130.82 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $2,208.78 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $2,208.78 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $2,338.70 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $2,338.70 | ↓ -10% |
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X-ray cervical spine >= 6 views at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,087.95 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $477.64 | $62.81 – $597.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $538.91 | $110.93 – $808.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $643.60 | $62.81 – $804.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $477.64 | $62.81 – $597.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $538.91 | $67.21 – $808.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $538.91 | $62.81 – $808.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $643.60 | $62.81 – $965.40 |