Tc-99m pentetate dtpa aerosol 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.
$29.52 with Superior Health Plan vs $600.00 with Texas Athletic Network — 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 | CHIP | $29.52 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $29.52 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $29.52 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $29.52 | — |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $29.52 | — |
| Aetna | MCR | $32.62 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $34.72 | — |
| United | SmallGroup | $34.72 | — |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $34.72 | — |
| Cigna | CSN | $41.91 | — |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $45.38 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $54.04 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $63.95 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $63.95 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $63.95 | — |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $63.95 | — |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $68.87 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $68.87 | — |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $80.19 | — |
| Superior | EPO | $86.09 | — |
| Superior | HMO | $86.09 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $86.58 | — |
| BCBS | BAV | $88.55 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $95.93 | — |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $97.41 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $100.36 | — |
| BCBS | HMO | $110.69 | — |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $113.15 | — |
| BCBS | PPO | $115.12 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $116.59 | — |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $116.59 | — |
| TX Workforce Commission | GVT | $118.07 | — |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $125.45 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $132.83 | — |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $134.31 | — |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $157.92 | — |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $157.92 | — |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $157.92 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $168.25 | — |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $168.25 | — |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $168.25 | — |
| Imagine Health | PPO | $172.19 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $172.19 | — |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $196.78 | — |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $196.78 | — |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $197.28 | — |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $197.28 | — |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $197.28 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $211.54 | — |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $213.02 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $213.02 | — |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $213.02 | — |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $221.38 | — |
| Averde Health | Commercial | $221.38 | — |
| Fidelis SecureCare of TX | MGMCR | $221.38 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $236.00 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $236.00 | — |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $262.21 | — |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $270.58 | — |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $270.58 | — |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $295.18 | — |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $295.18 | — |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $295.18 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | Premier | $300.00 | — |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $319.77 | — |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $368.97 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $403.41 | — |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $418.17 | — |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $418.17 | — |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $418.17 | — |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $442.76 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | PremierPlus | $500.00 | — |
| Texas Athletic Network | TexasCustomUC | $600.00 | — |
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Tc-99m pentetate dtpa aerosol at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $46.62 | $29.10 – $99.90 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $634.90 | $35.67 – $1,814.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $634.90 | $29.10 – $1,814.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $634.90 | $29.10 – $1,814.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $634.90 | $29.10 – $1,814.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $634.90 | $29.10 – $1,814.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $34.72 – $236.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $34.72 – $236.00 |