ER Visit (level 3) at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$827.97
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.
$2,509.00
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.
$25.63 with Superior vs $2,135.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| First Care | KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| El Paso First | KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Star KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $25.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $27.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $37.28 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $51.36 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $51.36 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $51.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $64.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Community First | Star KM | $64.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $69.90 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $69.90 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $104.85 | ↓ -87% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $111.84 | ↓ -86% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $128.15 | ↓ -85% |
| Phcs | PPO | $151.45 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $151.45 | ↓ -82% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $151.45 | ↓ -82% |
| First Health | PPO | $151.45 | ↓ -82% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $174.75 | ↓ -79% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $186.40 | ↓ -77% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $186.40 | ↓ -77% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $186.40 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $186.40 | ↓ -77% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $221.35 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellcare | MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $259.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $267.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $267.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $272.99 | ↓ -67% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $278.19 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $280.79 | ↓ -66% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $280.79 | ↓ -66% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $285.99 | ↓ -65% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $285.99 | ↓ -65% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $285.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $311.99 | ↓ -62% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $337.99 | ↓ -59% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $363.99 | ↓ -56% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $519.98 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1,053.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | New Business | $1,197.00 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | POS | $1,330.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,330.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | EPO | $1,330.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,330.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $1,519.00 | ↑ +83% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,525.00 | ↑ +84% |
| Cigna | New Business | $1,542.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $1,834.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $1,834.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $1,918.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,957.00 | ↑ +136% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $2,128.00 | ↑ +157% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $2,135.00 | ↑ +158% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,470.35 | $859.86 – $859.86 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $770.04 | $218.18 – $6,299.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $886.75 | $182.52 – $2,805.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,006.17 | $201.23 – $2,805.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $770.04 | $205.34 – $2,691.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $886.75 | $260.51 – $2,805.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $886.75 | $458.16 – $2,410.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,006.17 | $260.51 – $2,410.00 |