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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.
$256.04 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $3,298.04 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $256.04 | — |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | CHIP | $256.04 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $256.04 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $256.04 | — |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | MEDICAID | $256.04 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $256.04 | — |
| United | MGMCD | $261.16 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $276.52 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $281.64 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $281.64 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $281.64 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $281.64 | — |
| Oscar | MGMCR | $298.71 | — |
| BCBS | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $304.81 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantageHMO | $304.81 | — |
| Humana | MedicareAdvantagePPOPFFS | $304.81 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $304.81 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $304.81 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $304.81 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $304.81 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $304.81 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MCRSNP | $304.81 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | PFFS | $304.81 | — |
| Cigna HealthSpring | MMP | $304.81 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $304.81 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $304.81 | — |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $304.81 | — |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $304.81 | — |
| WellMed | MGMCR | $306.33 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $307.40 | — |
| Van Lang IPA | MCR | $307.86 | — |
| United | MCR | $310.91 | — |
| WellCare | PPO | $313.95 | — |
| WellCare | PFFS | $313.95 | — |
| WellCare | SNP | $313.95 | — |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $313.95 | — |
| WellCare | POS | $313.95 | — |
| Integranet Amerigroup IPA | MCR | $313.95 | — |
| ProCare Advantage | MGMCR | $320.05 | — |
| American Health Plan | MGMCR | $320.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | DualEligible | $320.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRHMO | $320.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPOS | $320.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRPPO | $320.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | MCRSNP | $320.05 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | PFFS | $320.05 | — |
| Shared Health | MGMCR | $320.05 | — |
| Humana | MCD | $320.05 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | MCRHMO | $323.10 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PPO | $323.10 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | SNP | $323.10 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | PFFS | $323.10 | — |
| Provider Partners Health Plan of Texas | POS | $323.10 | — |
| Molina | MGMCR | $332.24 | — |
| Verda Health Plan | MCR | $396.25 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $441.97 | — |
| Community Health Choice | HIX | $441.97 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $472.46 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $472.46 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $615.72 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $655.34 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $679.73 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $740.69 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $850.42 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $880.90 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $911.38 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $972.34 | — |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,116.60 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,253.15 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,357.33 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,484.94 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,484.94 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,484.94 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,577.60 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,577.60 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,577.60 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,614.91 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,853.28 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,853.28 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,853.28 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,003.86 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,003.86 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,003.86 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $3,298.04 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $3,298.04 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $256.04 – $1,253.15 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $250.92 – $1,253.15 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $479.17 | $35.00 – $731.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $365.77 | $36.00 – $731.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $365.77 | $36.00 – $731.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $479.17 | $35.00 – $731.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $365.77 | $36.00 – $731.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $365.77 | $26.00 – $731.54 |