Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$794.31
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.
$2,407.00
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.
$255.53 with Aetna vs $2,410.10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Chip KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| El Paso First | KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Superior | Star KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| First Care | KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Community First | Star KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $255.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $278.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $278.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $278.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $278.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $278.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $278.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $278.76 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $418.14 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $418.14 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $418.14 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $696.90 | ↓ -12% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $696.90 | ↓ -12% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Wellcare | MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $741.85 | ↓ -7% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $756.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $764.11 | ↓ -4% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $764.11 | ↓ -4% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $778.94 | ↓ -2% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $793.78 | ↓ -0% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $801.20 | ↑ +1% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $801.20 | ↑ +1% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $816.04 | ↑ +3% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $816.04 | ↑ +3% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $816.04 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | New Business | $859.51 | ↑ +8% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $890.22 | ↑ +12% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $964.41 | ↑ +21% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $1,038.59 | ↑ +31% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $1,045.35 | ↑ +32% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1,161.50 | ↑ +46% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $1,184.73 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | New Business | $1,254.42 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,277.65 | ↑ +61% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $1,277.65 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,393.80 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | POS | $1,393.80 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,393.80 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | EPO | $1,393.80 | ↑ +75% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $1,483.70 | ↑ +87% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,509.95 | ↑ +90% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $1,509.95 | ↑ +90% |
| Phcs | PPO | $1,509.95 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | PPO | $1,509.95 | ↑ +90% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $1,626.10 | ↑ +105% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $1,654.39 | ↑ +108% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $1,742.25 | ↑ +119% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $1,858.40 | ↑ +134% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $1,858.40 | ↑ +134% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $1,858.40 | ↑ +134% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,858.40 | ↑ +134% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $2,028.84 | ↑ +155% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $2,056.08 | ↑ +159% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $2,206.85 | ↑ +178% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $2,280.75 | ↑ +187% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $2,410.10 | ↑ +203% |
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $12,383.32 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $4,974.84 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $2,850.54 | $2,321.60 – $2,321.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $18,772.48 | $1,593.12 – $1,593.12 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $1,356.90 | $100.00 – $8,141.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $3,150.00 | $100.00 – $9,000.00 |