X-ray skull < 4 views at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$3,041.95
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.
$3,041.95
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.
$35.37 with Texas Health Network vs $2,737.76 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 | $35.37 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $36.09 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $36.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $38.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $39.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $39.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $39.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $39.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $45.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | CSN | $99.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $107.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | PPO | $127.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $161.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $182.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $182.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $182.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $182.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $182.52 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $212.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $214.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $214.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $214.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $227.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $227.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $227.73 | ↓ -93% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -92% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $267.77 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $267.77 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $267.77 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $289.38 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $289.38 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $289.38 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $395.64 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | PPO | $409.09 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | PPO | $415.29 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | HMO | $415.29 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $504.96 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $535.38 | ↓ -82% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $730.07 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $760.49 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $775.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $830.45 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,064.68 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,064.68 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $1,064.68 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,216.78 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,216.78 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1,308.04 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,368.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $1,368.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $1,368.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $1,520.97 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,621.36 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,673.07 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,673.07 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,825.17 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,825.17 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $1,825.17 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,825.17 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,977.27 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $2,433.56 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $2,433.56 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $2,494.40 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $2,585.66 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $2,585.66 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $2,737.76 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $2,737.76 | ↓ -10% |
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X-ray skull < 4 views at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $615.53 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $277.54 | $36.09 – $346.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $309.63 | $63.73 – $464.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $312.96 | $36.09 – $391.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $277.54 | $36.09 – $346.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $309.63 | $38.62 – $464.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $309.63 | $36.09 – $464.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $312.96 | $36.09 – $469.44 |