Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray (with bending views) at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$2,238.00
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.
$2,238.00
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.
$61.48 with Amerigroup vs $1,902.30 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 | $61.48 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $61.48 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $62.15 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $62.15 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $62.15 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $62.15 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $63.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $67.12 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $67.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $67.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $67.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $67.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $76.85 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $92.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $92.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $92.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $134.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $134.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $134.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $134.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $134.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | CSN | $172.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $186.25 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $197.26 | ↓ -91% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | PPO | $221.40 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -89% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | BAV | $249.94 | ↓ -89% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $375.98 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | HMO | $381.07 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $392.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $392.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $392.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $417.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $417.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $417.86 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $422.54 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | PPO | $464.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $491.29 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $491.29 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $491.29 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $531.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $531.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $531.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $570.69 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $610.97 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $741.45 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $741.45 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $783.30 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $792.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $895.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $895.20 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,007.10 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $1,678.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,902.30 | ↓ -15% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray (with bending views) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,093.75 | $61.48 – $3,125.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $3,194.00 | $60.25 – $392.71 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,093.75 | $61.48 – $3,125.00 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $1,180.00 | $105.02 – $204.79 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $485.50 | $105.02 – $420.09 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $1,180.00 | $105.02 – $420.09 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $61.48 – $392.71 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,049.33 | $431.51 – $431.51 |