Established Patient Office Visit (level 3) at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$262.02
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.
$794.00
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.
$12.21 with Driscoll Children's Health Plan vs $183.73 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 |
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| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | Star KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| First Care | KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| El Paso First | KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Community First | Star KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $12.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $13.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $13.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $13.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $13.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $13.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $13.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $13.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $16.65 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $19.98 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $19.98 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $19.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $23.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $33.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $33.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | New Business | $41.07 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $44.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $44.40 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $46.62 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $49.95 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | MM | $52.15 | ↓ -80% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $55.50 | ↓ -79% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $56.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | New Business | $59.94 | ↓ -77% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $61.05 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | PPO | $61.05 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | PPO | $66.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | EPO | $66.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | HMO | $66.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | POS | $66.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $66.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $72.15 | ↓ -72% |
| First Health | PPO | $72.15 | ↓ -72% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $72.15 | ↓ -72% |
| Phcs | PPO | $72.15 | ↓ -72% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $77.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $83.25 | ↓ -68% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $88.80 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $88.80 | ↓ -66% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $88.80 | ↓ -66% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $88.80 | ↓ -66% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $94.35 | ↓ -64% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $105.45 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $126.12 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $136.03 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $152.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $154.66 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $156.74 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $183.73 | ↓ -30% |
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Established Patient Office Visit (level 3) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $361.22 | $199.82 – $199.82 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $148.40 | $61.24 – $424.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $214.20 | $15.42 – $108.90 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $66.87 | $20.50 – $100.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $148.40 | $74.00 – $424.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $148.40 | $74.00 – $424.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $214.20 | $66.55 – $190.12 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $148.40 | $74.00 – $424.00 |