Thyroid imaging at HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST
6002 FAIRMONT PKWY, PASADENA, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1174576698
$2,047.80
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.
$2,047.80
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.
$122.87 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,843.02 with Multiplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $122.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $122.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $122.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $122.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $122.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Health Network | MCD | $168.31 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $171.74 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $171.74 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $171.74 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $171.74 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $178.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $178.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $178.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $178.43 | ↓ -91% |
| United | MGMCD | $182.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $188.91 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $188.91 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $188.91 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $188.91 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $192.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | MCD | $214.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $318.42 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $360.41 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | BAV | $403.45 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $413.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $491.47 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $522.19 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $559.05 | ↓ -73% |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | HMO | $615.13 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | PPO | $653.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $653.45 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $660.36 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | PPO | $705.59 | ↓ -66% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -65% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $716.73 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $716.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $819.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $819.12 | ↓ -60% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -59% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $880.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $921.51 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $921.51 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $921.51 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $992.90 | ↓ -52% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $1,023.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,091.48 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $1,126.29 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $1,126.29 | ↓ -45% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $1,228.68 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $1,228.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $1,228.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Prime Health Services | WORKERSCOMP | $1,228.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $1,228.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,319.66 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,319.66 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,319.66 | ↓ -36% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $1,331.07 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,403.80 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,403.80 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,403.80 | ↓ -31% |
| Fiesta Mart, Inc | COMM | $1,535.85 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $1,638.24 | ↓ -20% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $1,638.24 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,650.62 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,650.62 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,650.62 | ↓ -19% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,679.20 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,740.63 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,740.63 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,783.85 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,783.85 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,783.85 | ↓ -13% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,843.02 | ↓ -10% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $1,843.02 | ↓ -10% |
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Thyroid imaging at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $568.40 | $163.15 – $1,723.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $673.01 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $577.80 | $118.93 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $577.80 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $673.01 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $577.80 | $183.76 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $577.80 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $577.80 | $171.74 – $1,021.72 |