Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$9,538.27
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.
$9,538.27
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.
$241.58 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $5,083.90 with Coventry National First Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $241.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $241.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $241.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $241.58 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $246.41 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $259.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $259.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $259.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $259.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $260.91 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $294.88 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $325.52 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BAV | $358.90 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $449.33 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | PPO | $449.33 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | HMO | $449.33 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $572.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $572.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $572.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $572.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $572.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,288.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,288.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,411.66 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,526.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,583.35 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,602.43 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,812.27 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,859.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $2,260.57 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $2,260.57 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,298.72 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,432.26 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,603.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,785.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,785.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,785.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,966.40 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,966.40 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,966.40 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,338.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,491.01 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,491.01 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,491.01 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,777.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,777.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,777.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,815.31 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,815.31 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $4,292.22 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $5,083.90 | ↓ -47% |
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Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $1,565.20 | $100.00 – $4,472.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $6,224.83 | $535.57 – $535.57 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,798.47 | $232.89 – $3,498.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,872.38 | $420.11 – $4,308.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,974.04 | $232.89 – $3,717.55 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,798.47 | $232.89 – $3,498.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,872.38 | $249.19 – $4,308.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,872.38 | $232.89 – $4,308.57 |