Ghs aspiration bladder - needle at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$289.08
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.
$876.00
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.
$35.47 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas vs $4,020.00 with Five Point Credit Union — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $35.47 | ↓ -88% |
| First Care | KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| El Paso First | KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Star KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $36.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $38.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Community First | Star KM | $38.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $38.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $38.37 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $45.61 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $46.78 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $51.84 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $53.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $90.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $90.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $90.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $90.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $90.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | New Business | $129.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $163.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | PPO | $164.00 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Wellcare | MM | $228.37 | ↓ -21% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $235.22 | ↓ -19% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $235.22 | ↓ -19% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $239.79 | ↓ -17% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $244.36 | ↓ -15% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $246.64 | ↓ -15% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $246.64 | ↓ -15% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $251.21 | ↓ -13% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $251.21 | ↓ -13% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $251.21 | ↓ -13% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $271.37 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $271.37 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $271.37 | ↓ -6% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $274.04 | ↓ -5% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $296.88 | ↑ +3% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $319.72 | ↑ +11% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $362.40 | ↑ +25% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $415.25 | ↑ +44% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $456.74 | ↑ +58% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $490.75 | ↑ +70% |
| First Health | PPO | $490.75 | ↑ +70% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $490.75 | ↑ +70% |
| Phcs | PPO | $490.75 | ↑ +70% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $566.25 | ↑ +96% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $604.00 | ↑ +109% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $604.00 | ↑ +109% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $604.00 | ↑ +109% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $604.00 | ↑ +109% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $717.25 | ↑ +148% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,082.00 | ↑ +274% |
| Aetna | New Business | $1,612.00 | ↑ +458% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,791.00 | ↑ +520% |
| Aetna | EPO | $1,791.00 | ↑ +520% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,791.00 | ↑ +520% |
| Aetna | POS | $1,791.00 | ↑ +520% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $2,963.00 | ↑ +925% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $4,020.00 | ↑ +1291% |
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Ghs aspiration bladder - needle at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHRISTUS Children's Hospital | San Antonio | not published | $36.54 – $199.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $934.66 | $36.54 – $1,168.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $590.84 | $39.10 – $886.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $593.88 | $36.54 – $742.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $934.66 | $36.54 – $1,168.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $590.84 | $39.10 – $886.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $590.84 | $36.54 – $886.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $593.88 | $36.54 – $890.82 |