Tc-99m maa at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$399.11
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.
$1,140.30
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.
$32.57 with BCBS - TX vs $855.23 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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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $32.57 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $36.75 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $42.04 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $63.30 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $63.30 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $63.30 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $63.35 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $79.48 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $97.11 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $684.18 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $741.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $741.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $798.21 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $798.21 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $855.23 | ↑ +114% |
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Tc-99m maa at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $1,371.46 | $50.14 – $233.18 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $766.64 | $50.14 – $233.18 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,099.56 | $50.14 – $233.18 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $1,280.09 | $50.14 – $233.18 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $1,328.96 | $50.14 – $233.18 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $386.05 | $26.89 – $1,103.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $85.58 | $29.44 – $440.10 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $155.10 | $26.50 – $930.60 |