Pulse ox multiple at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$134.70
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.
$134.70
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.
$8.08 with Superior Health Plan vs $60.61 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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| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $8.93 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $10.11 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BAV | $11.15 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | HMO | $13.95 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $14.21 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | PPO | $14.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $17.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $17.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $17.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $17.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $19.94 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $21.55 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $22.63 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $25.59 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $26.27 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $30.17 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $34.35 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $36.37 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $36.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $36.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $36.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $36.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $38.93 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $38.93 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $38.93 | ↓ -71% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $40.41 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | HMO | $42.27 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | PPO | $42.27 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $45.93 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $45.93 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $45.93 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $47.15 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $49.03 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $49.57 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $49.57 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $49.57 | ↓ -63% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $53.88 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $53.88 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $60.61 | ↓ -55% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Pulse ox multiple at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $10.11 – $42.27 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $10.11 – $42.27 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $476.04 | $16.63 – $16.63 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $194.33 | $13.26 – $275.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $194.33 | $13.05 – $291.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $194.33 | $13.05 – $242.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $194.33 | $10.11 – $275.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $194.33 | $15.94 – $291.49 |