Echo transesophageal intraop at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$8,791.33
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.
$8,791.33
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.
$249.26 with Community Health Choice MCD vs $4,685.78 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 |
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| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $249.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $249.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $249.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $249.26 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $254.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $269.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $274.19 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $274.19 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $274.19 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $274.19 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $311.57 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $527.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $527.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $527.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $527.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $527.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | PPO | $968.35 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | HMO | $968.35 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,163.78 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | BAV | $1,283.14 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,301.12 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $1,406.61 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,459.36 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,476.94 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,606.41 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,606.41 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,606.41 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,670.35 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,714.31 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $2,083.55 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $2,083.55 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $2,118.71 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,241.79 | ↓ -74% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,400.03 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,567.07 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,567.07 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,567.07 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,734.10 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,734.10 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,734.10 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,076.97 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,217.63 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,217.63 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,217.63 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,481.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,481.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,481.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,516.53 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,516.53 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,956.10 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,685.78 | ↓ -47% |
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Echo transesophageal intraop at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - IRVING | Irving | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - LAKE POINTE | Rowlett | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - MCKINNEY | McKinney | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - FRISCO AT PGA PARKWAY | Frisco | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |