Echo tee guidance at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$680.79
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.
$2,063.00
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.
$176.04 with Amerigroup vs $1,393.65 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $176.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $176.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $176.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $176.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $176.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | MM | $195.19 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $216.85 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $216.85 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $216.85 | ↓ -68% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $220.05 | ↓ -68% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior | Star KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| First Care | KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| El Paso First | KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Community First | Star KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $237.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $248.97 | ↓ -63% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $248.97 | ↓ -63% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $308.07 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $434.32 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business | $542.79 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $575.38 | ↓ -15% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $586.80 | ↓ -14% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $586.80 | ↓ -14% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $660.15 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $705.60 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $715.08 | ↑ +5% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $733.50 | ↑ +8% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $748.17 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $756.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | New Business | $792.18 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $793.21 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | PPO | $806.85 | ↑ +19% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $806.85 | ↑ +19% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $838.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | HMO | $880.20 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | PPO | $880.20 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | EPO | $880.20 | ↑ +29% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $880.20 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | POS | $880.20 | ↑ +29% |
| First Health | PPO | $953.55 | ↑ +40% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $953.55 | ↑ +40% |
| Phcs | PPO | $953.55 | ↑ +40% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $953.55 | ↑ +40% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $1,026.90 | ↑ +51% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $1,100.25 | ↑ +62% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,173.60 | ↑ +72% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $1,173.60 | ↑ +72% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $1,173.60 | ↑ +72% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $1,173.60 | ↑ +72% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $1,246.95 | ↑ +83% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $1,393.65 | ↑ +105% |
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Echo tee guidance at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,967.40 | $238.59 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,773.93 | $219.86 – $4,717.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,967.40 | $235.25 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,967.40 | $219.86 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,773.93 | $219.86 – $5,660.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |