X-ray exam entire spi 6/> vw at HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL
5003 CYPRESS CREEK PKWY, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1750819025
$3,469.98
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.
$3,469.98
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.
$98.90 with Texas Childrens Healthplans vs $1,561.49 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 | $98.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Healthplans | MEDICAID | $98.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $99.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $99.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $99.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $99.58 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $101.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $107.55 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $108.79 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $108.79 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $108.79 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $108.79 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $121.79 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MCD | $123.63 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $154.32 | ↓ -96% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $207.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $208.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $208.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $208.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $208.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $208.20 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $235.28 | ↓ -93% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $245.18 | ↓ -93% |
| United | SmallGroup | $245.18 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $260.88 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | PPO | $286.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | CSN | $288.37 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $312.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | PPO | $370.98 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $467.78 | ↓ -87% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $582.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $621.72 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $621.72 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $621.72 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $661.36 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $661.36 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $661.36 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $777.64 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $777.64 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $777.64 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $840.41 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $840.41 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $840.41 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $884.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $947.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,154.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,154.78 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,214.49 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $1,263.07 | ↓ -64% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,387.99 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,387.99 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,561.49 | ↓ -55% |
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X-ray exam entire spi 6/> vw at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,060.40 | $83.04 – $8,744.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,060.40 | $97.57 – $8,744.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $99.58 – $467.78 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $96.92 – $467.78 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $575.76 | $98.90 – $719.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $591.21 | $121.69 – $886.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $591.20 | $98.90 – $739.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $575.76 | $98.90 – $719.70 |