5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$17.35
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.
$52.59
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.
$5.78 with Superior vs $49.96 with National Choicecare — 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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| Superior | Star KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| First Care | KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| El Paso First | KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Community First | Star KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $5.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $6.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $6.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $6.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $6.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $6.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $6.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $6.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | MM | $7.77 | ↓ -55% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $7.88 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $9.46 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $9.46 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $9.46 | ↓ -45% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $11.04 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $13.44 | ↓ -23% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $15.77 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $15.77 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $15.77 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $16.37 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $16.58 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $18.41 | ↑ +6% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $19.40 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | New Business | $19.45 | ↑ +12% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $21.03 | ↑ +21% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $21.03 | ↑ +21% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $23.66 | ↑ +36% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $26.29 | ↑ +52% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $26.29 | ↑ +52% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $26.82 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | New Business | $28.39 | ↑ +64% |
| Cigna | PPO | $28.92 | ↑ +67% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $28.92 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | POS | $31.55 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | PPO | $31.55 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | HMO | $31.55 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | EPO | $31.55 | ↑ +82% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $31.55 | ↑ +82% |
| Phcs | PPO | $34.18 | ↑ +97% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $34.18 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | PPO | $34.18 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $34.18 | ↑ +97% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $36.81 | ↑ +112% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $39.44 | ↑ +127% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $42.07 | ↑ +142% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $42.07 | ↑ +142% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $42.07 | ↑ +142% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $42.07 | ↑ +142% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $44.70 | ↑ +158% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $49.96 | ↑ +188% |
Visitor-reported prices
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5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital - Beeville | Beeville | $15.43 | $15.48 – $15.48 |
| CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Jasper Memorial | Jasper | $48.39 | $23.06 – $23.06 |
| CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont | Beaumont | $48.39 | $20.40 – $20.40 |
| CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline | Corpus Christi | $15.43 | $13.02 – $13.02 |
| MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL | Argyle | $112.88 | $18.04 – $48.53 |
| MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL | SAGINAW | $377.22 | $18.04 – $48.53 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $20.14 – $20.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $10.25 – $19.41 |