Tc-99m exametazime diag at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,389.91
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.
$6,828.30
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $5,121.00 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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| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -96% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $803.64 | ↓ -66% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $803.64 | ↓ -66% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $803.64 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $803.64 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $819.71 | ↓ -66% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $819.71 | ↓ -66% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $827.75 | ↓ -65% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $859.89 | ↓ -64% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $859.89 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,145.74 | ↓ -52% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,205.46 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,205.46 | ↓ -50% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,205.46 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,580.65 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,725.03 | ↓ -28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,725.03 | ↓ -28% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,725.03 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1,783.67 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $3,074.30 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,857.37 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,096.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,438.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,438.20 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $4,712.96 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,779.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,779.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,121.00 | ↑ +114% |
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Tc-99m exametazime diag at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $1,530.72 – $17,017.34 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $9,053.47 | $1,530.72 – $17,017.34 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $6,497.16 | $1,530.72 – $17,017.34 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $6,745.24 | $1,530.72 – $17,017.34 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,135.70 | $100.00 – $6,102.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $494.55 | $360.04 – $2,543.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $524.70 | $100.00 – $3,148.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $3,218.16 | $1,530.72 – $17,017.34 |