Sodium thiosulfate 12.5 gram/50 ml (250 mg/ml) intravenous solution at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$534.28
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.
$534.28
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.
$1.45 with United vs $240.43 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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| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1.45 | ↓ -100% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1.45 | ↓ -100% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1.45 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1.53 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1.68 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1.98 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2.11 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2.11 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | HMO | $2.11 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2.15 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2.56 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $32.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $32.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $32.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $32.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $32.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $35.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $69.46 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $69.46 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $69.46 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $69.46 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $89.76 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $144.26 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $160.28 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | HMO | $170.49 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $170.49 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $187.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $194.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $213.71 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $240.43 | ↓ -55% |
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Sodium thiosulfate 12.5 gram/50 ml (250 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $534.28 | $1.45 – $1.98 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $150.27 | $25.73 – $116.94 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $699.00 | $1.45 – $1.98 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $150.27 | $25.73 – $116.94 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $156.60 | $0.84 – $195.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $156.60 | $32.23 – $234.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $156.60 | $0.84 – $195.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $156.60 | $0.84 – $195.75 |