Tc-99m pertechnetate per mci at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$183.15
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.
$555.00
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.
$2.80 with United Healthcare vs $23.80 with Verity Healthnet National — 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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| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $2.80 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $2.80 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $2.80 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $2.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $3.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $3.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | Star KM | $3.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $3.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $3.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $3.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $4.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MM | $6.72 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $7.84 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $8.40 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $8.40 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $8.40 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Star KM | $8.40 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $9.04 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | New Business | $10.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $11.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $11.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $12.60 | ↓ -93% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $14.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $14.00 | ↓ -92% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $14.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $15.33 | ↓ -92% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $16.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | PPO | $16.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $16.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $18.20 | ↓ -90% |
| First Health | PPO | $18.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $19.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $19.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $19.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Phcs | PPO | $19.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $19.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $19.60 | ↓ -89% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $19.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $21.18 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $22.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $22.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $22.40 | ↓ -88% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $22.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $22.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $23.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $23.80 | ↓ -87% |
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Tc-99m pertechnetate per mci at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $191.98 | $4.19 – $38.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $235.55 | $4.19 – $38.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $244.54 | $4.19 – $38.28 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $8.82 | $4.28 – $18.75 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $9.10 | $3.54 – $26.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $58.98 | $5.42 – $303.30 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $11.25 | $8.41 – $73.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $165.94 | $4.19 – $38.28 |