Echo transthoracic at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$4,277.38
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.
$4,277.38
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.
$220.19 with Texas Childrens Healthplans vs $1,924.82 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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| Texas Childrens Healthplans | MEDICAID | $220.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | CHIP | $220.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $227.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $227.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $227.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $227.88 | ↓ -95% |
| United | MGMCD | $232.44 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $242.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $242.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $242.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $242.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $246.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $256.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $256.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $256.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $256.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $256.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | MCD | $275.24 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $408.17 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | BAV | $450.03 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | HMO | $563.41 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $573.87 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | PPO | $584.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $633.05 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $684.38 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $718.60 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $812.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $834.09 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $958.13 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,090.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,167.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,167.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,167.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,167.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,236.16 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,236.16 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,236.16 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,458.59 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,458.59 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,458.59 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,497.08 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,556.97 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,574.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,574.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,574.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,656.58 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,656.58 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,710.95 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,710.95 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,924.82 | ↓ -55% |
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Echo transthoracic at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $227.88 – $408.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $215.79 – $408.17 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,646.00 | $215.51 – $3,307.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,646.00 | $526.78 – $3,969.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,646.00 | $215.51 – $3,307.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,646.00 | $215.51 – $3,307.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,646.00 | $230.60 – $3,969.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,646.00 | $215.51 – $3,969.00 |