Whole-Body Bone Scan (Nuclear Medicine) at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$8,663.70
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.
$8,663.70
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.
$275.66 with Amerigroup vs $7,364.15 with Multiplan — 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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| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $275.66 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $275.66 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $294.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $294.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $294.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $294.04 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCD | $299.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARPLUS | $303.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STARKIDS | $303.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | STAR | $303.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina Healthcare | CHIP | $303.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna Better Health | MGMCD | $317.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | MCD | $344.58 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $476.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $519.82 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $519.82 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $519.82 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $519.82 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $519.82 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BAV | $603.55 | ↓ -93% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $716.53 | ↓ -92% |
| United | SmallGroup | $848.52 | ↓ -90% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $848.52 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | HMO | $920.21 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $985.17 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,047.42 | ↓ -88% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,455.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $1,994.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $1,994.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $1,994.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $2,122.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $2,122.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $2,122.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $2,209.24 | ↓ -75% |
| Evry Health | BroadNetwork | $2,365.19 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $2,495.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $2,495.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $2,495.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $2,697.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $2,697.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $2,697.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | HMO | $2,870.28 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | PPO | $2,870.28 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $3,032.30 | ↓ -65% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $3,465.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $3,465.48 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $3,898.67 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $4,487.80 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $6,497.77 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $7,364.15 | ↓ -15% |
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Whole-Body Bone Scan (Nuclear Medicine) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,956.15 | $275.66 – $5,589.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,956.15 | $275.66 – $5,589.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $9,685.54 | $275.66 – $1,994.47 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $2,838.00 | $401.59 – $783.11 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston | $2,464.50 | $401.59 – $1,606.37 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $2,838.00 | $401.59 – $1,606.37 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $270.15 – $1,994.47 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,823.30 | $264.64 – $2,279.12 |