Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$8,257.80
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.
$8,257.80
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.
$317.09 with BCBS vs $3,716.01 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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| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $317.09 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $349.62 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | HMO | $437.70 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $445.83 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | PPO | $453.96 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $495.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $495.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $495.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $495.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $495.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,073.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,073.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,073.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,073.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,222.15 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,268.54 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,268.54 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,321.25 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,387.31 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,568.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,610.27 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,849.75 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,105.74 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,254.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,254.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,254.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,254.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,386.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,386.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,386.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,815.91 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,815.91 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,815.91 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,890.23 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $3,005.84 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,038.87 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,038.87 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,038.87 | ↓ -63% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,303.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,303.12 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,716.01 | ↓ -55% |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $3,379.24 | $317.09 – $1,268.54 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,651.25 | $100.00 – $7,575.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,651.25 | $100.00 – $7,575.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $317.09 – $1,268.54 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,328.88 | $521.71 – $521.71 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,589.56 | $416.02 – $3,236.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,884.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,236.95 |