Esophagus motility study at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$3,778.68
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.
$3,778.68
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.
$226.72 with Superior Health Plan vs $2,947.00 with Aetna — 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 | CHIP | $226.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $226.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $226.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $226.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $226.72 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $292.64 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | BAV | $322.65 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $403.94 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | HMO | $403.94 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | PPO | $403.94 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $491.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $491.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $491.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $491.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | CSN | $559.24 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $604.59 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $627.26 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $634.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $717.95 | ↓ -81% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $895.55 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $895.55 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $963.56 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | HMO | $1,025.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $1,025.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $1,031.58 | ↓ -73% |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,120.00 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,322.54 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $1,430.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $1,511.47 | ↓ -60% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,600.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $1,672.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $1,700.41 | ↓ -55% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,702.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,899.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,899.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2,014.04 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,017.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,017.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,181.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,317.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Oscar | HIX | $2,358.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,374.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,374.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,564.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,564.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,727.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,947.00 | ↓ -22% |
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Esophagus motility study at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,257.17 | $356.12 – $1,571.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,153.75 | $237.48 – $1,730.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,681.16 | $336.23 – $2,101.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,257.17 | $292.64 – $1,571.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,153.75 | $356.12 – $1,730.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,153.75 | $596.10 – $1,730.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,681.16 | $356.12 – $2,521.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,257.17 | $335.25 – $1,571.47 |