Methotrexate sodium 2.5 mg tablet at HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD
5324 ATASCOCITA RD, HUMBLE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1811942238
$179.74
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.
$179.74
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.
$0.15 with TriWest Health Alliance vs $161.77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $0.15 | ↓ -100% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $0.15 | ↓ -100% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| United | SmallGroup | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | CSN | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $0.52 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | PPO | $0.62 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $4.02 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | PPO | $5.54 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | HMO | $5.54 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $5.54 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $6.91 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | HMO | $6.92 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | PPO | $6.92 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $10.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $10.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $10.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $10.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $10.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $11.92 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $23.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $23.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $23.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $23.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $25.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $25.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $29.84 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $30.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $31.45 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $31.45 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $35.59 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $42.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $42.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $48.53 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $53.92 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $62.91 | ↓ -65% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $77.29 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $80.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $95.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $98.86 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $98.86 | ↓ -45% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $107.84 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $107.84 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $107.84 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $116.83 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $134.81 | ↓ -25% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $143.79 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $147.39 | ↓ -18% |
| USA Managed Care | COMM | $152.78 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $152.78 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $152.78 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $152.78 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $161.77 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | not published by hospital | — |
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Methotrexate sodium 2.5 mg tablet at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $12.47 | $0.20 – $6.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $185.60 | $0.20 – $6.92 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $21.89 | $0.69 – $8.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $106.88 | $0.15 – $6.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $179.32 | $0.20 – $6.92 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $9.93 | $0.26 – $21.27 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $18.04 | $0.25 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $12.59 | $0.25 – $23.37 |