Artery x-rays spine at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$1.32
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.
$4.00
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.
$0.48 with Amerigroup vs $20,407.08 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $0.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $0.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $0.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $0.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $0.48 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1.68 | ↑ +27% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $1.76 | ↑ +33% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $1.80 | ↑ +36% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $2.20 | ↑ +67% |
| Phcs | PPO | $2.60 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $2.60 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | PPO | $2.60 | ↑ +97% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2.60 | ↑ +97% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $2.80 | ↑ +112% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $3.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $3.20 | ↑ +142% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $3.20 | ↑ +142% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $3.20 | ↑ +142% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $3.20 | ↑ +142% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $3.80 | ↑ +188% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $239.58 | ↑ +18050% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $239.58 | ↑ +18050% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $239.58 | ↑ +18050% |
| Aetna | New Business | $289.49 | ↑ +21831% |
| Aetna | PPO | $321.66 | ↑ +24268% |
| Aetna | HMO | $321.66 | ↑ +24268% |
| Aetna | POS | $321.66 | ↑ +24268% |
| Aetna | EPO | $321.66 | ↑ +24268% |
| Cigna | New Business | $388.25 | ↑ +29313% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $455.39 | ↑ +34399% |
| Cigna | PPO | $491.68 | ↑ +37148% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $2,537.92 | ↑ +192167% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Aetna | MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Wellcare | MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $5,075.84 | ↑ +384433% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $5,228.12 | ↑ +395970% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $5,228.12 | ↑ +395970% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $5,329.63 | ↑ +403660% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $5,431.15 | ↑ +411351% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $5,481.91 | ↑ +415196% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $5,481.91 | ↑ +415196% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $5,583.42 | ↑ +422886% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $5,583.42 | ↑ +422886% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $5,583.42 | ↑ +422886% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $6,091.01 | ↑ +461340% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| El Paso First | KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| First Care | KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Community First | Star KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Superior | Star KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $6,476.10 | ↑ +490514% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $6,598.59 | ↑ +499793% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $6,799.91 | ↑ +515045% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $6,799.91 | ↑ +515045% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $7,106.18 | ↑ +538247% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $10,151.68 | ↑ +768967% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $14,202.23 | ↑ +1075827% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $17,235.71 | ↑ +1305636% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $17,465.52 | ↑ +1323045% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $19,395.92 | ↑ +1469288% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $20,407.08 | ↑ +1545891% |
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Artery x-rays spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHRISTUS Children's Hospital | San Antonio | not published | $239.58 – $6,799.91 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,255.45 | $875.91 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $6,385.15 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,094.60 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,255.45 | $268.51 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,255.45 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $6,385.15 | $250.94 – $13,613.39 |