Tc-99m medronate at St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital
17400 St Lukes Way, The Woodlands, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184868879
$61.25
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.
$175.00
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.
$14.12 with BCBS - TX vs $175.00 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 | $14.12 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $15.93 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $27.45 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $34.45 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $42.09 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $45.50 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $47.25 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $59.50 | ↓ -3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $61.25 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $63.32 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $66.50 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $66.50 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $82.25 | ↑ +34% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $96.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $96.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $96.25 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $105.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $113.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $113.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $113.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $122.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $122.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $122.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $131.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $144.59 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $148.75 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $175.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Tc-99m medronate at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $1,048.89 | $25.38 – $151.94 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,099.56 | $25.38 – $151.94 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $384.78 | $14.12 – $824.52 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $61.25 | $11.66 – $175.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $82.78 | $17.87 – $425.70 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $132.45 | $27.71 – $794.70 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $903.13 | $25.38 – $151.94 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $61.25 | $14.12 – $175.00 |