Red blood cells each unit at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$251.64
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.
$251.64
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.
$15.10 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,390.77 with Humana — 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 | $15.10 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $15.10 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $15.10 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $15.10 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $15.10 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $32.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $32.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $32.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $32.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $37.24 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $40.26 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $41.02 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $42.28 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $45.30 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $47.81 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $49.07 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | HMO | $56.62 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $57.88 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $58.88 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $64.17 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $68.70 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $88.07 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $91.60 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $100.66 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $100.66 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $113.24 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $354.66 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $471.65 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $471.65 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $471.65 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $501.08 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $501.08 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $501.08 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $588.64 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $588.64 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $588.64 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $636.47 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $636.47 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $636.47 | ↑ +153% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,390.77 | ↑ +453% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,390.77 | ↑ +453% |
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Red blood cells each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $925.94 | $354.66 – $1,390.77 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $277.20 | $94.00 – $792.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,352.00 | $354.66 – $1,390.77 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $277.20 | $88.00 – $792.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $414.33 | $117.39 – $517.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $447.32 | $92.07 – $670.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $464.14 | $92.83 – $580.17 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $414.33 | $110.49 – $517.91 |