Technetium-99m carbon aerosol preparation crucible at St Luke's Methodist Hospital

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Tc-99m graphite crucible

Cedar Rapids, IA

See all hospitals reporting HCPCS A9506 →

SharePost on X LinkedIn

Pricing by billing methodology

Price type

How this price compares nationally

St Luke's Methodist Hospital’s median price of $345 is 2% below the median hospital's median price ($352), higher than 43% of the 964 hospitals reporting HCPCS A9506. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.

Payers reporting HCPCS A9506 at St Luke's Methodist Hospital

Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 5 payers, 11 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.

Filter by billing methodology

Filter by billing class

#
1	UnitedHealthcare hmo fee schedule · outpatient	$329	$329	—	—	—	$329 – $329
2	UnitedHealthcare ppo fee schedule · outpatient	$329	$329	—	—	—	$329 – $329
3	Aetna medicare advantage case rate · outpatient	$335	$335	—	—	—	$335 – $335
4	Molina medicare advantage case rate · outpatient	$335	$335	—	—	—	$335 – $335
5	Wellmark medicare advantage case rate · outpatient	$335	$335	—	—	—	$335 – $335
6	Humana medicare advantage case rate · outpatient	$345	$345	—	—	—	$345 – $345
7	UnitedHealthcare medicare advantage case rate · outpatient	$345	$345	—	—	—	$345 – $345
8	UnitedHealthcare hmo fee schedule · both	$353	$353	—	—	—	$353 – $353
9	UnitedHealthcare ppo fee schedule · both	$353	$353	—	—	—	$353 – $353
10	Aetna hmo fee schedule · outpatient	$608	$608	—	—	—	$608 – $608
11	Aetna ppo fee schedule · outpatient	$608	$608	—	—	—	$608 – $608

Last updated: Jan 28, 2026

Compare to other hospitals

See Technetium-99m carbon aerosol preparation crucible pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.