Insitu hybridization manual at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$129.60
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.
$129.60
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.
$7.78 with Superior Health Plan vs $904.08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $7.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $7.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $7.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $7.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $7.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $16.85 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $16.85 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $16.85 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $16.85 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $21.77 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $25.27 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $33.05 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $35.38 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $45.36 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $47.17 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $51.84 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $58.32 | ↓ -55% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $291.26 | ↑ +125% |
| United | SmallGroup | $291.26 | ↑ +125% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $291.26 | ↑ +125% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $364.92 | ↑ +182% |
| Cigna | CSN | $421.79 | ↑ +225% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $456.85 | ↑ +253% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $485.30 | ↑ +274% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $485.30 | ↑ +274% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $485.30 | ↑ +274% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $515.59 | ↑ +298% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $515.59 | ↑ +298% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $515.59 | ↑ +298% |
| Cigna | PPO | $543.55 | ↑ +319% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $572.49 | ↑ +342% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $605.68 | ↑ +367% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $605.68 | ↑ +367% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $605.68 | ↑ +367% |
| BCBS | BAV | $632.00 | ↑ +388% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $654.89 | ↑ +405% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $654.89 | ↑ +405% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $654.89 | ↑ +405% |
| BCBS | HMO | $790.71 | ↑ +510% |
| Humana | PPO | $810.53 | ↑ +525% |
| Humana | HMO | $810.53 | ↑ +525% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $847.40 | ↑ +554% |
| BCBS | PPO | $904.08 | ↑ +598% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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Insitu hybridization manual at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,021.56 | $291.26 – $810.53 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $255.15 | $88.10 – $729.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,329.00 | $291.26 – $810.53 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $255.15 | $196.83 – $729.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $401.28 | $35.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $318.00 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $318.00 | $36.00 – $890.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $401.28 | $35.00 – $890.45 |