Dextrose 5 % in water (d5w) intravenous solution (non-pvc) 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.
$1.82 with Christus (USFHP) vs $26.54 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 |
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| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1.82 | — |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $1.82 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2.89 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $2.89 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $2.89 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $3.54 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $3.54 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $3.54 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $3.54 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $3.54 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $3.91 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $4.91 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $5.32 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $6.33 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $7.67 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $7.67 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $7.67 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $7.67 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $9.91 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $14.86 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $15.92 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $16.37 | — |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $17.69 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $20.47 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $20.47 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $20.47 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $20.64 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $21.47 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $24.64 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $24.64 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $26.54 | — |
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Dextrose 5 % in water (d5w) intravenous solution (non-pvc) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $22.03 | $0.41 – $1.86 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $22.03 | $0.41 – $1.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1.82 – $24.64 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1.75 – $24.64 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $39.88 | $29.18 – $29.18 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $51.89 | $7.09 – $30.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $8.09 | $2.57 – $17.33 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $47.66 | $2.06 – $285.96 |