Chloramphenicol sodium injec at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$252.24
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.
$252.24
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.
$15.13 with Superior Health Plan vs $384.34 with Humana — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $15.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $15.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $15.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $15.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $15.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $16.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $32.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $32.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $32.79 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $32.79 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $42.38 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $52.72 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | BAV | $58.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $68.10 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $72.63 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | PPO | $72.63 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | HMO | $72.63 | ↓ -71% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $75.67 | ↓ -70% |
| United | SmallGroup | $82.93 | ↓ -67% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $82.93 | ↓ -67% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $82.93 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $88.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $91.82 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $100.90 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $113.51 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | CSN | $120.08 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $130.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | PPO | $154.81 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | HMO | $384.34 | ↑ +52% |
| Humana | PPO | $384.34 | ↑ +52% |
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Chloramphenicol sodium injec at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $52.72 – $384.34 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $52.72 – $384.34 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $416.18 | $52.72 – $384.34 |
| Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $13.68 | $31.74 – $31.74 |
| Ascension Seton Northwest (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $13.68 | $31.74 – $31.74 |
| Ascension Seton Smithville (Ascension Seton) | Smithville | $13.68 | $31.74 – $31.74 |
| Dell Children's Medical Center (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $26.60 | $31.74 – $31.74 |
| Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $13.68 | $31.74 – $31.74 |