Tc-99m pertechnetate per mci at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$8.82
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.
$25.20
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.
$4.28 with BCBS - TX vs $18.75 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 | $4.28 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $4.83 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $6.50 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $8.00 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $8.33 | ↓ -6% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8.50 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8.75 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $9.50 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.50 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10.25 | ↑ +16% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $10.45 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $12.77 | ↑ +45% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $15.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $16.25 | ↑ +84% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $16.25 | ↑ +84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $17.50 | ↑ +98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $17.50 | ↑ +98% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $18.75 | ↑ +113% |
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Tc-99m pertechnetate per mci at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $4.19 – $38.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $191.98 | $4.19 – $38.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $235.55 | $4.19 – $38.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $244.54 | $4.19 – $38.28 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $9.10 | $3.54 – $26.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $58.98 | $5.42 – $303.30 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $11.25 | $8.41 – $73.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $165.94 | $4.19 – $38.28 |