ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center
2669 N Scenic Dr, Alamogordo, NM · Christushealth · · NPI 1861450579
not published by hospital
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
not published by hospital
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$329.73 with Magellan vs $935.25 with True Health New Mexico — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magellan | Medicaid HMO | $329.73 | — |
| Presbyterian Health Plan | Medicaid HMO | $329.73 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid HMO | $329.73 | — |
| BCBS-NM | CENTENNIAL CARE MEDICAID HMO | $362.70 | — |
| BCBS-NM | Community Centennil | $362.70 | — |
| Molina | Medicaid HMO | $362.70 | — |
| Tricare | For Life | $611.99 | — |
| Tricare | Nato West Healthnet | $611.99 | — |
| Tricare | East Region | $611.99 | — |
| Tricare | Standard West Healthnet | $611.99 | — |
| Tricare | Prime West Healthnet | $611.99 | — |
| Champus | Champva Center | $623.50 | — |
| Humana | Medicare HMO | $623.50 | — |
| Veterans Evaluations Services | All Plans | $623.50 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare HMO | $623.50 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare HMO | $623.50 | — |
| Veterans Affairs | PCCC Triwest | $623.50 | — |
| Molina | Medicare HMO | $623.50 | — |
| Veterans Affairs | El Paso | $623.50 | — |
| AARP | Medicare HMO | $623.50 | — |
| Veterans Affairs | Albuquerque | $623.50 | — |
| BCBS-NM | Medicare HMO | $623.50 | — |
| BCBS-MI | Medicare Plus Blue | $623.50 | — |
| Champus | Primary Care Solutions | $623.50 | — |
| Allwell | Medicare HMO | $685.85 | — |
| Magellan | Medicare HMO | $692.09 | — |
| Presbyterian Health Plan | Medicare HMO | $692.09 | — |
| Friday Health Plan | Commercial | $935.25 | — |
| True Health New Mexico | Commercial | $935.25 | — |
| Humana | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| BCBS-NM | Federal | not published by hospital | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| BCBS-NM | GCRMC Employee | not published by hospital | — |
| BCBS-IL | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Geha | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at other New-mexico hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital | Hobbs | $1,517.88 | $590.72 – $827.01 |