Tc-99m bicisate at HCA HOUSTON CONROE
504 MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD, CONROE, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1962455816
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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.
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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.
$300.00 with Texas Athletic Network vs $11,667.71 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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| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $487.08 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $487.08 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $487.08 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $487.08 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $487.08 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $726.38 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $800.50 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,000.62 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,000.62 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $1,000.62 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,055.33 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,055.33 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,055.33 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,055.33 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $1,136.51 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $1,136.51 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,279.61 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,279.61 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $1,279.61 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,428.76 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $1,583.00 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $1,656.06 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1,923.95 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1,923.95 | — |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $1,948.31 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,070.07 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,216.20 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $2,605.86 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $2,605.86 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $2,605.86 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,776.34 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,776.34 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,776.34 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $2,841.28 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $2,841.28 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,247.18 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,247.18 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $3,255.29 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $3,255.29 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $3,255.29 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $3,490.71 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $3,515.07 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $3,515.07 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $3,515.07 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,653.07 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $3,653.07 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $3,653.07 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,326.86 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $4,349.01 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $4,349.01 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $4,464.87 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $4,464.87 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $4,870.76 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $4,870.76 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $4,870.76 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $5,276.66 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $6,088.45 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $6,656.71 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $6,900.25 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $6,900.25 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $6,900.25 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $7,306.15 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $9,049.95 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $9,797.88 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $11,667.71 | — |
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Tc-99m bicisate at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $3,372.43 | $726.38 – $9,049.95 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,969.45 | $100.00 – $5,627.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $374.68 | $272.77 – $1,926.90 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $436.80 | $100.00 – $2,620.80 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $1,969.45 | $100.00 – $5,627.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $1,969.45 | $100.00 – $5,627.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $374.68 | $428.20 – $1,819.85 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $1,969.45 | $100.00 – $5,627.00 |