X-ray exam of tear duct at HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST
6002 FAIRMONT PKWY, PASADENA, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1174576698
$5,070.83
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.
$5,070.83
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.
$56.43 with Texas Health Network vs $4,563.75 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 | $56.43 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $57.57 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $57.57 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $57.57 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $57.57 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $57.58 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $57.58 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $57.58 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $57.58 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCD | $58.72 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $62.18 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $63.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $63.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $63.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $63.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | MCD | $71.97 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | CSN | $126.22 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $136.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | PPO | $162.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $304.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $304.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $304.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $304.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $304.25 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $410.15 | ↓ -92% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $437.25 | ↓ -91% |
| United | SmallGroup | $517.79 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $517.79 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | BAV | $519.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | PPO | $773.17 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | HMO | $773.17 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | HMO | $792.34 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $850.60 | ↓ -83% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $892.47 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | PPO | $908.86 | ↓ -82% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,024.31 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $1,217.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,293.06 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,352.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,384.34 | ↓ -73% |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $1,774.79 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,774.79 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,797.12 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,797.12 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,797.12 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,911.71 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,911.71 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,911.71 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,028.33 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,028.33 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $2,180.46 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,247.83 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,247.83 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,247.83 | ↓ -56% |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $2,281.87 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,281.87 | ↓ -55% |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $2,281.87 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,429.27 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,429.27 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,429.27 | ↓ -52% |
| Multiplan | SAVILITYNETWORK | $2,535.41 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,702.75 | ↓ -47% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2,788.96 | ↓ -45% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2,788.96 | ↓ -45% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $3,042.50 | ↓ -40% |
| Prime Health Services | WORKERSCOMP | $3,042.50 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $3,042.50 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $3,042.50 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $3,042.50 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $3,296.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Fiesta Mart, Inc | COMM | $3,803.12 | ↓ -25% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $4,056.66 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $4,056.66 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $4,158.08 | ↓ -18% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $4,310.21 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $4,310.21 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $4,563.75 | ↓ -10% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $4,563.75 | ↓ -10% |
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X-ray exam of tear duct at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $864.68 | $177.98 – $1,297.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $907.91 | $57.58 – $1,134.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $864.68 | $61.61 – $1,297.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $864.68 | $57.58 – $1,297.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $907.91 | $57.58 – $1,361.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $864.68 | $57.58 – $1,080.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $864.68 | $57.58 – $1,297.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $907.91 | $57.58 – $1,361.86 |