Artery x-rays spine at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$10,889.27
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.
$10,889.27
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.
$248.59 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $19,028.23 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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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $248.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $248.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $248.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $248.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | MEDICAID | $250.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | CHIP | $250.94 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $253.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $268.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $276.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $276.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $276.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $276.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $313.68 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | CSN | $484.48 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $524.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | PPO | $623.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $653.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $653.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $653.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $653.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $653.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $770.30 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,023.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,023.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,023.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,089.09 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,089.09 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,089.09 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,280.58 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,280.58 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,280.58 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,383.94 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,383.94 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,383.94 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,829.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,415.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,415.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,776.76 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,972.77 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,811.24 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,963.69 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $4,355.71 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $4,355.71 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $4,900.17 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $8,089.29 | ↓ -26% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $9,063.70 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS | BAV | $10,249.50 | ↓ -6% |
| United | SmallGroup | $10,733.33 | ↓ -1% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $10,733.33 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS | HMO | $15,627.05 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $17,327.64 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS | PPO | $19,028.23 | ↑ +75% |
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Artery x-rays spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $4,306.40 | $248.59 – $12,304.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $4,306.40 | $140.00 – $12,304.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $248.59 – $8,089.29 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $245.92 – $8,089.29 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,255.45 | $875.91 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $6,385.15 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |