Blood Draw (Venipuncture) at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$79.00
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.
$79.00
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.
$3.00 with United vs $67.15 with Multiplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $3.00 | ↓ -96% |
| United | SmallGroup | $3.00 | ↓ -96% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $3.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $4.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $4.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $4.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $4.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $4.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $7.29 | ↓ -91% |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $9.15 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | DualEligible | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $9.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | MCR | $9.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $9.43 | ↓ -88% |
| United | MCR | $9.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $9.62 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | PPO | $9.62 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $9.62 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $9.62 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | POS | $9.62 | ↓ -88% |
| WellCare | SNP | $9.62 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $9.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $9.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $9.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $9.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $9.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $9.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | MGMCR | $10.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $10.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $10.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $10.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $10.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $11.06 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $11.06 | ↓ -86% |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $12.14 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $12.88 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $13.27 | ↓ -83% |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $13.54 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $13.54 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $14.22 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | EPO | $14.48 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior | HMO | $14.48 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | HMO | $17.77 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $18.17 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $18.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $20.08 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $20.86 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $20.86 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $20.86 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $21.57 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $22.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $22.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $22.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | CSN | $24.12 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $26.07 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $26.07 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $26.07 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $26.12 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $26.17 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $26.17 | ↓ -67% |
| Oscar | HIX | $26.99 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $27.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $27.97 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $28.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $28.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $28.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | PPO | $31.08 | ↓ -61% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $31.60 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $35.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $59.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $67.15 | ↓ -15% |
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Blood Draw (Venipuncture) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $22.05 | $4.50 – $56.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $22.05 | $4.50 – $56.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $36.00 | $9.34 – $18.21 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $30.00 | $9.34 – $37.36 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $36.00 | $9.34 – $37.36 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3.00 – $24.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $3.00 – $24.12 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $67.16 | $8.18 – $8.18 |