Dexamethasone intra implant at HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND
11100 Shadow Creek Pkwy, Pearland, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1609275585
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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.
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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.
$194.23 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $1,949.66 with Humana — 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $194.23 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $194.23 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $194.23 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $194.23 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $203.97 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $205.24 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $205.24 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $215.97 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $226.12 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $226.12 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $226.12 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $226.12 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $256.95 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $337.49 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $337.49 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $337.49 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $373.36 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $411.46 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $496.78 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $514.32 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $514.32 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $514.32 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $537.83 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $640.47 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $1,949.66 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $1,949.66 | — |
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Dexamethasone intra implant at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $233.28 | $169.83 – $1,199.70 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $233.28 | $200.06 – $1,133.05 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $233.28 | $204.06 – $1,479.63 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $233.28 | $204.06 – $1,199.70 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $733.39 – $4,826.69 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $194.23 – $496.78 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $194.23 – $496.78 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $712.43 – $781.32 |