Echocardiogram (Limited Follow-Up Heart Ultrasound) at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$4,108.95
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.
$4,108.95
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.
$98.24 with Amerigroup vs $3,492.61 with Multiplan — 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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| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $98.24 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $98.24 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $98.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $98.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $98.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $98.56 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCD | $100.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $106.44 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $108.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $108.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $108.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $108.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | MCD | $122.80 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $172.88 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $190.61 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $238.63 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | HMO | $238.63 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | PPO | $238.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $246.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $246.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $246.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $246.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $246.54 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $343.84 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $343.84 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $343.84 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | CSN | $608.12 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $657.43 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $690.30 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $780.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $801.25 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $1,047.78 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,121.74 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,162.83 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,162.83 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,162.83 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $1,236.79 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $1,236.79 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $1,236.79 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,361.30 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,361.30 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,438.13 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $1,454.57 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $1,454.57 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $1,454.57 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $1,577.84 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $1,577.84 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $1,577.84 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,643.58 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,643.58 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,849.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,128.44 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $3,081.71 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $3,492.61 | ↓ -15% |
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Echocardiogram (Limited Follow-Up Heart Ultrasound) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $462.00 | $98.24 – $1,320.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $974.85 | $284.44 – $284.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $838.44 | $97.56 – $1,048.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $838.44 | $172.58 – $1,257.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $838.44 | $97.56 – $1,048.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $838.44 | $97.56 – $1,048.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $838.44 | $104.39 – $1,257.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $838.44 | $97.56 – $1,257.66 |