X-ray small bowel multi serial images abdominal radiographs(s)&delayed images single contrast study at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$4,673.13
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.
$4,673.13
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.
$119.52 with Texas Health Network vs $4,205.82 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 | $119.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $121.96 | ↓ -97% |
| UTMB | MGMCD | $121.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $121.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $121.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $121.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $124.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $124.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $124.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $124.30 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $126.79 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $134.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $134.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $134.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $134.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $134.24 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $152.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $280.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $280.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $280.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $280.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $280.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | CSN | $312.87 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $320.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $338.60 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $339.25 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $346.22 | ↓ -93% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $401.74 | ↓ -91% |
| United | SmallGroup | $401.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | PPO | $402.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $521.58 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | HMO | $619.55 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $643.24 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | PPO | $665.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $693.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $693.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $693.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $737.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $737.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $737.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $775.74 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $822.47 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $867.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $867.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $867.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $937.08 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $937.08 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $937.08 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,121.55 | ↓ -76% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $1,168.28 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,191.65 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,275.76 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,397.11 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,397.11 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,635.60 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,635.60 | ↓ -65% |
| Kelsey Care (Boon-Chapman) | COMM | $1,635.60 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,869.25 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,869.25 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2,009.45 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,102.91 | ↓ -55% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $2,102.91 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $2,102.91 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $2,336.57 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,490.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,570.22 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,570.22 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2,803.88 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2,803.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $2,803.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2,803.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $3,037.53 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $3,738.50 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $3,738.50 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3,831.97 | ↓ -18% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $3,972.16 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $3,972.16 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $4,205.82 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $4,205.82 | ↓ -10% |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $520.69 | $121.96 – $781.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $602.88 | $121.96 – $904.32 |
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