Brachy source iodine-125 nonstranded at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital
16655 Southwest Freeway, Sugar Land, TX · Houstonmethodist · · NPI 1497871628
$820.50
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.
$1,641.00
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.
$36.64 with Bcbs vs $164.30 with Bcbs — 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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| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $36.64 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo | $37.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $37.37 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Texas Healthspring Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo | $37.74 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | Advantage Medicare Managed Care Plan | $38.47 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice | D-Snp Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $39.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Procare Advantage | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $40.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice | Silver & Gold Exchange | $59.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Optum Health | Transplant Medicare Managed Care Plan | $71.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina Healthcare | Exchange | $73.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Bcbs | All Commercial Plans | $164.30 | ↓ -80% |
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Brachy source iodine-125 nonstranded at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $260.23 | $22.81 – $161.10 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $260.23 | $35.80 – $152.15 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $260.23 | $35.80 – $198.69 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $260.23 | $35.80 – $161.10 |
| MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL | Argyle | $333.00 | $92.66 – $92.66 |
| MEDICAL CITY LEWISVILLE HOSPITAL | LEWISVILLE | $350.00 | $92.66 – $92.66 |
| MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL | SAGINAW | $336.00 | $92.66 – $92.66 |
| MEDICAL CITY ARLINGTON HOSPITAL | RED OAK | $395.00 | $92.66 – $92.66 |