Ventilator each subsequent day at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$1,670.63
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.
$1,670.63
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.
$100.24 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,556.18 with BCBS — 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 | CHPFC | $100.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $100.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $100.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $100.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $100.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $217.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $217.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $217.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $217.18 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $280.67 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $325.77 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $374.22 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $456.08 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $456.08 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $456.08 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $482.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $482.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $482.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $569.68 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $569.68 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $569.68 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $584.72 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $608.11 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $614.79 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $614.79 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $614.79 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | PPO | $649.17 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | HMO | $649.17 | ↓ -61% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $668.25 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $751.78 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,087.00 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,198.49 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,500.43 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,528.30 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,556.18 | ↓ -7% |
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Ventilator each subsequent day at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,705.72 | $649.17 – $1,087.00 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,529.85 | $100.00 – $4,371.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $3,975.00 | $649.17 – $1,087.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,529.85 | $100.00 – $4,371.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,891.14 | $1,788.44 – $1,788.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,572.08 | $445.42 – $1,965.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,492.75 | $307.26 – $2,239.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,732.73 | $346.55 – $2,165.92 |