Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$92.07
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.
$279.00
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.
$3.74 with United Healthcare vs $265.05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $3.74 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $17.55 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $32.75 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $32.75 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $32.75 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $33.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $33.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $33.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $33.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $33.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellcare | MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior | Star KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Community First | Star KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| El Paso First | KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| First Care | KM | $35.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $36.14 | ↓ -61% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $36.14 | ↓ -61% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $36.84 | ↓ -60% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $36.84 | ↓ -60% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $36.84 | ↓ -60% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $37.55 | ↓ -59% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $37.90 | ↓ -59% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $37.90 | ↓ -59% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $38.60 | ↓ -58% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $38.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $38.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $42.11 | ↓ -54% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $45.62 | ↓ -50% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $49.13 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | PPO | $69.48 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | POS | $69.48 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | EPO | $69.48 | ↓ -25% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $70.18 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $90.18 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $92.43 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $109.83 | ↑ +19% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $111.24 | ↑ +21% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $122.76 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $123.52 | ↑ +34% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $125.55 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $130.18 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | New Business | $139.91 | ↑ +52% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $153.45 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | PPO | $177.18 | ↑ +92% |
| Phcs | PPO | $181.35 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | PPO | $181.35 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $181.35 | ↑ +97% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $181.35 | ↑ +97% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $195.30 | ↑ +112% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $209.25 | ↑ +127% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $223.20 | ↑ +142% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $223.20 | ↑ +142% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $223.20 | ↑ +142% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $223.20 | ↑ +142% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $265.05 | ↑ +188% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $241.92 | $76.64 – $152.99 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $500.00 | $28.89 – $144.97 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $862.48 | $28.89 – $144.97 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $27.54 | $29.48 – $155.70 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $437.15 | $25.26 – $1,249.00 |