Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$775.28
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.
$775.28
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.
$14.51 with Texas Childrens Healthplans vs $348.88 with United — 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 Childrens Healthplans | MEDICAID | $14.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $14.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $14.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $14.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $14.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | CHIP | $14.51 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $14.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $15.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $15.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $15.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $15.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $15.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $16.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| United | SmallGroup | $17.27 | ↓ -98% |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $17.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | MCR | $17.42 | ↓ -98% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $17.44 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MCR | $17.62 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | PPO | $17.79 | ↓ -98% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $17.79 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | SNP | $17.79 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $17.79 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $17.79 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | POS | $17.79 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $18.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $18.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $18.31 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $18.31 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $18.31 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $18.31 | ↓ -98% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $18.31 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $18.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $18.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $18.82 | ↓ -98% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $22.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $25.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $25.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | EPO | $26.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | HMO | $26.77 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $34.89 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $37.13 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | BAV | $38.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $46.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $46.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $46.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $46.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $46.52 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $48.18 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | HIX | $49.91 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $51.64 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | PPO | $55.09 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | CSN | $71.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $77.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | PPO | $91.62 | ↓ -88% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $130.25 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $173.66 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $197.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $211.65 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $211.65 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $211.65 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $211.65 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $224.06 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $224.06 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $224.06 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | PPO | $247.39 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | HMO | $247.39 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $264.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $264.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $264.37 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $271.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $282.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $285.30 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $285.30 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $285.30 | ↓ -63% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $348.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $718.75 | $14.51 – $71.10 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $14.22 – $71.10 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $126.88 | $10.00 – $46.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $126.88 | $7.74 – $56.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $126.88 | $12.00 – $46.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $126.88 | $10.00 – $46.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $126.88 | $12.00 – $56.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $126.88 | $8.00 – $56.38 |