Bone marrow interpretation at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$294.84
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.
$294.84
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.
$17.69 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,003.96 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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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $17.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $17.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $17.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $17.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $17.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $38.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $38.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $38.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $38.33 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $49.53 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $57.49 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $75.18 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $80.49 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $103.19 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $107.32 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $117.94 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $132.68 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | CSN | $134.49 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $145.67 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | PPO | $173.31 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $182.15 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $242.23 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $242.23 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $242.23 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $257.35 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $257.35 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $257.35 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $302.32 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $302.32 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $302.32 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $326.88 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $326.88 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $326.88 | ↑ +11% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $656.15 | ↑ +123% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $656.15 | ↑ +123% |
| United | SmallGroup | $656.15 | ↑ +123% |
| Humana | PPO | $969.90 | ↑ +229% |
| Humana | HMO | $969.90 | ↑ +229% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,268.96 | ↑ +330% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,400.89 | ↑ +375% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,752.68 | ↑ +494% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,878.32 | ↑ +537% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,003.96 | ↑ +580% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Bone marrow interpretation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $430.00 | $134.49 – $1,268.96 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $134.49 – $1,268.96 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $542.03 | $10.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $542.03 | $12.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $542.03 | $12.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $542.03 | $10.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $542.03 | $12.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $542.03 | $8.00 – $2,130.15 |