Pulse ox single at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$1,156.92
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.
$1,156.92
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.
$5.90 with BCBS vs $520.61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $5.90 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | BAV | $6.50 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | HMO | $8.14 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $8.29 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | PPO | $8.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | HMO | $25.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | PPO | $25.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $69.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $69.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $69.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $69.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $69.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $76.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $150.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $150.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $150.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $150.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $171.22 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $185.11 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $194.36 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $219.81 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $225.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $259.15 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $295.01 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $312.37 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $315.84 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $315.84 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $315.84 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $315.84 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $334.35 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $334.35 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $334.35 | ↓ -71% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $347.08 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $394.51 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $394.51 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $394.51 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $404.92 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $421.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $425.75 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $425.75 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $425.75 | ↓ -63% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $462.77 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $462.77 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $520.61 | ↓ -55% |
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Pulse ox single at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $343.74 | $5.90 – $25.81 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $52.50 | $2.97 – $1,240.20 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $52.50 | $3.68 – $1,240.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $5.90 – $25.81 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $244.08 | $9.70 – $9.70 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $112.05 | $7.74 – $158.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $95.02 | $7.61 – $142.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $101.37 | $7.61 – $126.71 |