Gallbladder Function Scan (HIDA with Medication) at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$13,582.19
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.
$13,582.19
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.
$407.30 with Amerigroup vs $11,544.86 with Multiplan — 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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| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $407.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $407.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $433.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $433.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $433.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $433.04 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $441.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $448.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $448.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $448.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $448.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $467.68 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $509.13 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $610.95 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $610.95 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $610.95 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $735.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $814.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $814.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $814.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $814.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $814.93 | ↓ -94% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $929.86 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BAV | $932.25 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,101.15 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,421.37 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,576.05 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,730.73 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,281.81 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $3,081.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $3,081.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $3,081.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $3,278.58 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $3,278.58 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $3,278.58 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $3,463.46 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $3,707.94 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,854.75 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,854.75 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,854.75 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $4,167.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $4,167.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $4,167.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | HMO | $4,499.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $4,499.78 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,753.77 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,808.10 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $5,432.88 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $5,432.88 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $6,111.99 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $10,186.64 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $11,544.86 | ↓ -15% |
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Gallbladder Function Scan (HIDA with Medication) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,172.80 | $407.30 – $6,208.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,172.80 | $407.30 – $6,208.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $2,853.00 | $545.44 – $1,063.62 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $2,557.50 | $545.44 – $2,181.78 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $2,853.00 | $545.44 – $2,181.78 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $12,147.34 | $407.30 – $3,081.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $399.15 – $3,081.30 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,900.64 | $390.26 – $2,375.80 |