Tobramycin comp unit at HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST
621 RAYFORD RD, SPRING, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1740450121
$155.50
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.
$155.50
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.
$9.33 with Superior Health Plan vs $153.57 with Cigna — 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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| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $9.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $9.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $9.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $9.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $9.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $20.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $20.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $20.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $20.21 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $25.35 | ↓ -84% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $25.81 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $26.12 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $27.99 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | HMO | $34.99 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $35.77 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | PPO | $36.39 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $36.85 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $36.85 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $41.98 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | HMO | $49.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | PPO | $49.62 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $54.42 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $62.20 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $69.97 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $82.88 | ↓ -47% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $98.65 | ↓ -37% |
| United | SmallGroup | $98.65 | ↓ -37% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $98.65 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | CSN | $119.11 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $128.96 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | PPO | $153.57 | ↓ -1% |
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Tobramycin comp unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $54.97 | $98.65 – $119.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $98.65 – $119.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $98.65 – $119.11 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $222.72 – $222.72 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $98.65 – $119.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $98.65 – $119.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $98.65 – $119.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $98.65 – $119.11 |