Chest Ultrasound at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
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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.
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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.
$56.80 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $5,138.58 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $56.80 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $56.80 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $56.80 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $56.80 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $57.14 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $57.14 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $57.94 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $61.34 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $62.85 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $62.85 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $62.85 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $62.85 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $71.42 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $85.71 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $85.71 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $85.71 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $213.00 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $254.36 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $254.36 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $254.36 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $270.65 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $270.65 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $270.65 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $318.21 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $318.21 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $318.21 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $344.06 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $344.06 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $344.06 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $362.72 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $362.72 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $362.72 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $362.72 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $362.72 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $422.54 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $464.01 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,015.63 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,650.39 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $2,002.84 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $2,002.84 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,115.89 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,140.07 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,418.16 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,418.16 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2,720.43 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $4,534.04 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $5,138.58 | — |
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Chest Ultrasound at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $612.15 | $56.80 – $1,749.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $612.15 | $56.80 – $1,749.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $1,206.00 | $105.02 – $204.79 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $588.00 | $105.02 – $420.09 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $1,206.00 | $105.02 – $420.09 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $56.00 – $254.36 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $56.80 – $254.36 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $956.71 | $431.51 – $431.51 |