Tc-99m sulfur colloid at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$313.60
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.
$896.00
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.
$58.05 with BCBS-TX vs $714.00 with MHealth 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $58.05 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $65.51 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $112.91 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $141.67 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $173.10 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $185.64 | ↓ -41% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $192.78 | ↓ -39% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $242.76 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $249.90 | ↓ -20% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $258.33 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $271.32 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $271.32 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $335.58 | ↑ +7% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $392.70 | ↑ +25% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $392.70 | ↑ +25% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $392.70 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $428.40 | ↑ +37% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $464.10 | ↑ +48% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $464.10 | ↑ +48% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $464.10 | ↑ +48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $499.80 | ↑ +59% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $499.80 | ↑ +59% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $499.80 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $535.50 | ↑ +71% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $589.91 | ↑ +88% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $606.90 | ↑ +94% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $714.00 | ↑ +128% |
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Tc-99m sulfur colloid at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $313.60 | $47.93 – $714.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $104.39 – $1,239.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $104.39 – $1,239.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $104.39 – $1,239.81 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $205.55 | $58.24 – $291.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $205.55 | $42.31 – $308.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $205.55 | $41.11 – $256.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $205.55 | $54.81 – $291.20 |