Vein x-ray skull epidural at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$6,889.57
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.
$6,889.57
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.
$128.64 with Texas Childrens Healthplans vs $3,100.31 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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| Texas Childrens Healthplans | CHIP | $128.64 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | MEDICAID | $128.64 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $129.64 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $129.64 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $129.64 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $129.64 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $132.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $140.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $141.50 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $141.50 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $141.50 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $141.50 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MCD | $160.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $273.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $296.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | PPO | $352.26 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $413.37 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $413.37 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $413.37 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $413.37 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $413.37 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $445.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $592.64 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $592.64 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $592.64 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $630.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $630.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $630.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $741.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $741.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $741.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $801.11 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $801.11 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $801.11 | ↓ -88% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,029.08 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,109.70 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,157.45 | ↓ -83% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,218.65 | ↓ -82% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,218.65 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,406.04 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,595.83 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,595.83 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,756.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,880.85 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | HMO | $2,143.73 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $2,377.02 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,411.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,507.80 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | PPO | $2,610.31 | ↓ -62% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $2,755.83 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $2,755.83 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,100.31 | ↓ -55% |
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Vein x-ray skull epidural at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $129.64 – $1,109.70 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $126.07 – $1,109.70 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,006.40 | $128.64 – $1,556.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,980.52 | $407.66 – $2,970.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,079.54 | $128.64 – $2,599.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,006.40 | $128.64 – $1,556.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,980.52 | $137.64 – $2,970.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,980.52 | $128.64 – $2,970.77 |