Histochemical stains add-on at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$100.65
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.
$305.00
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.
$7.23 with United Healthcare vs $260.74 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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| United Healthcare | All Payer | $7.23 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| El Paso First | KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Community First | Star KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior | Star KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| First Care | KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $21.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $23.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $23.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $23.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $23.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $23.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $23.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $23.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $29.70 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $35.64 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $35.64 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $35.64 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $41.58 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | MM | $49.87 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $59.40 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $59.40 | ↓ -41% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $79.20 | ↓ -21% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $79.20 | ↓ -21% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $87.12 | ↓ -13% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $89.10 | ↓ -11% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $99.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $108.90 | ↑ +8% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $118.80 | ↑ +18% |
| First Health | PPO | $128.70 | ↑ +28% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $128.70 | ↑ +28% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $128.70 | ↑ +28% |
| Phcs | PPO | $128.70 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | New Business | $134.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $138.60 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $143.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $148.50 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | PPO | $149.61 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | HMO | $149.61 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | POS | $149.61 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | EPO | $149.61 | ↑ +49% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $158.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $158.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $158.40 | ↑ +57% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $158.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | New Business | $162.80 | ↑ +62% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $168.30 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $180.62 | ↑ +79% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $188.10 | ↑ +87% |
| Cigna | PPO | $206.17 | ↑ +105% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $219.98 | ↑ +119% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $222.79 | ↑ +121% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $247.39 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $260.74 | ↑ +159% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $190.85 | $35.00 – $253.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $182.42 | $36.00 – $268.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $179.04 | $30.64 – $363.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $190.85 | $35.00 – $255.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $182.42 | $36.00 – $443.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $182.42 | $26.00 – $268.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $179.04 | $36.00 – $363.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $190.85 | $35.00 – $253.64 |