Tc-99m sestamibi p study dose at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$120.75
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.
$345.00
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.
$89.70 with United vs $538.00 with Aetna — 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $89.70 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $117.30 | ↓ -3% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $131.10 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $131.10 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $148.38 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $167.44 | ↑ +39% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $207.00 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $224.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $224.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $241.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $241.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $258.75 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $288.60 | ↑ +139% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $345.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $345.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $538.00 | ↑ +346% |
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Tc-99m sestamibi p study dose at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $240.23 – $1,247.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $109.62 | $31.06 – $155.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $109.62 | $22.56 – $164.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $109.62 | $21.92 – $137.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $109.62 | $29.23 – $155.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $109.62 | $35.19 – $164.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $109.62 | $56.64 – $164.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $109.62 | $36.54 – $164.43 |