Esoph imped function test at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$1,209.46
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.
$1,209.46
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.
$72.57 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,358.00 with Oscar — 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 | $72.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $72.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $72.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $72.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $72.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $157.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $157.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $157.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $157.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $179.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $193.51 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $203.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $229.80 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $270.71 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | BAV | $298.48 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $308.41 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $330.18 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | HMO | $373.68 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $380.62 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | PPO | $387.56 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $423.31 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $440.24 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $483.78 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $544.26 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,035.56 | ↓ -14% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,035.56 | ↓ -14% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↓ -7% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↑ +32% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | ↑ +38% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,358.00 | ↑ +95% |
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Esoph imped function test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $270.71 – $1,035.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $270.71 – $1,035.56 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $800.22 | $206.06 – $1,000.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,036.73 | $213.39 – $1,555.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $855.56 | $171.11 – $1,069.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $800.22 | $206.06 – $1,000.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,036.73 | $206.06 – $1,555.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,036.73 | $535.65 – $1,667.00 |