Arthrocentesis/aspiration/inj major joint/bursa without Ultrasound guidance (both sides) at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$883.74
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.
$2,678.00
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.
$21.63 with United Healthcare vs $4,308.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $21.63 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $21.63 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $21.63 | ↓ -98% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| First Care | KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| El Paso First | KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Star KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $28.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $29.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Community First | Star KM | $29.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $29.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $29.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $36.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $37.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $41.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $42.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $42.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $42.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $42.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $42.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $42.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $163.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $169.92 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $177.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $194.70 | ↓ -78% |
| First Health | PPO | $230.10 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $230.10 | ↓ -74% |
| Phcs | PPO | $230.10 | ↓ -74% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $230.10 | ↓ -74% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $265.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellcare | MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $277.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $283.20 | ↓ -68% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $283.20 | ↓ -68% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $283.20 | ↓ -68% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $283.20 | ↓ -68% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $285.50 | ↓ -68% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $285.50 | ↓ -68% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $291.04 | ↓ -67% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $296.58 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $299.35 | ↓ -66% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $299.35 | ↓ -66% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $304.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $304.90 | ↓ -65% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $304.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $332.62 | ↓ -62% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $336.30 | ↓ -62% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $360.33 | ↓ -59% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $388.05 | ↓ -56% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $554.36 | ↓ -37% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,082.00 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | New Business | $1,612.00 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | EPO | $1,791.00 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,791.00 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | POS | $1,791.00 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,791.00 | ↑ +103% |
| Cigna | New Business | $3,395.00 | ↑ +284% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $4,020.00 | ↑ +355% |
| Cigna | PPO | $4,308.00 | ↑ +387% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $658.01 | $38.80 – $4,826.69 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,080.06 | $27.96 – $1,350.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $715.37 | $27.96 – $894.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $592.44 | $29.92 – $888.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $592.44 | $27.96 – $888.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,080.06 | $27.96 – $1,620.09 |