Discography cerv/thor spine at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$8,500.14
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.
$8,500.14
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.
$128.98 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $7,118.11 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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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $128.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $128.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $128.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $128.98 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $131.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | MEDICAID | $132.31 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | CHIP | $132.31 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $139.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $145.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $145.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $145.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $145.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $165.39 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $267.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $290.01 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | PPO | $344.74 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $426.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $510.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $510.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $510.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $510.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $510.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $566.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $566.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $566.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $602.30 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $602.30 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $602.30 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $708.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $708.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $708.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $765.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $765.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $765.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | PPO | $912.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | HMO | $912.27 | ↓ -89% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,428.02 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,167.54 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,320.54 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,975.05 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $3,026.06 | ↓ -64% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,094.05 | ↓ -64% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $3,333.34 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,400.06 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,400.06 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,825.06 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | BAV | $3,834.15 | ↓ -55% |
| United | SmallGroup | $3,947.38 | ↓ -54% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $3,947.38 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | HMO | $5,845.79 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $6,481.95 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS | PPO | $7,118.11 | ↓ -16% |
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Discography cerv/thor spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $20,775.94 | $128.98 – $3,026.06 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $128.98 – $3,026.06 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,050.91 | $132.31 – $4,783.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $5,350.69 | $1,101.35 – $8,026.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $5,618.23 | $132.31 – $7,022.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,050.91 | $132.31 – $4,783.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $5,350.69 | $141.57 – $8,026.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $5,350.69 | $132.31 – $8,026.04 |