X-ray esophogram chest radiograph(s) & delayed images single contrast study at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$4,967.88
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.
$4,967.88
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.
$95.61 with Texas Health Network vs $4,471.09 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 | $95.61 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $97.56 | ↓ -98% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $97.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $97.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $97.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $97.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $99.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $99.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $99.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $99.90 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $101.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $107.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $107.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $107.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $107.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $107.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $121.95 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $258.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $279.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $298.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $298.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $298.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $298.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $298.07 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $320.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | PPO | $332.27 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $339.25 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $346.22 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $401.74 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $429.97 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $571.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $571.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $571.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $607.91 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $607.91 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $607.91 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | HMO | $619.55 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $643.24 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | PPO | $665.10 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $714.79 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $714.79 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $714.79 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $772.49 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $772.49 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $772.49 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $824.67 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $874.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,142.27 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,142.27 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,192.29 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $1,241.97 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,266.81 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,356.23 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,738.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,738.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $1,738.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,987.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,987.15 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2,136.19 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,235.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $2,235.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $2,235.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $2,483.94 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,647.88 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,732.33 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,732.33 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,980.73 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,980.73 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $2,980.73 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,980.73 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $3,229.12 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $3,974.30 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $3,974.30 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $4,073.66 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $4,222.70 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $4,222.70 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $4,471.09 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $4,471.09 | ↓ -10% |
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