Puncture arterial withdrawal blood for diagnosis at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
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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.
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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.
$10.69 with Superior Health Plan vs $11,153.00 with Oscar — 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 | $10.69 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $10.69 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $10.69 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $10.69 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $10.69 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $23.15 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $23.15 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $23.15 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $23.15 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $29.03 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $29.92 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $32.06 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $39.89 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $40.07 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $40.96 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $41.68 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $48.62 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $48.62 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $48.62 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $51.47 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $51.47 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $51.47 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $60.73 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $60.73 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $60.73 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $62.34 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $64.83 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $65.54 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $65.54 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $65.54 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $71.24 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $80.14 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $2,518.00 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,728.00 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,244.00 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $4,183.00 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $4,340.00 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $4,690.00 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $4,690.00 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $5,976.00 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $11,153.00 | — |
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Puncture arterial withdrawal blood for diagnosis at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $92.40 | $71.28 – $264.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $525.00 | $134.32 – $189.71 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $92.40 | $71.28 – $264.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $223.51 – $223.51 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $287.08 | $136.29 – $136.29 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $127.50 | $10.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $96.17 | $12.00 – $316.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $94.55 | $12.00 – $316.45 |