Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$377.19
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.
$1,143.00
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.
$79.53 with Aetna vs $1,493.00 with United Healthcare — 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 | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Community First | Star KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| First Care | KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| El Paso First | KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Superior | Star KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $79.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $86.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $86.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $86.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $86.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $86.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $86.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $86.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $93.70 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $104.93 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $114.91 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $116.45 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $129.18 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $130.14 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $130.14 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $130.14 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $136.50 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellcare | MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $197.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $203.76 | ↓ -46% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $203.76 | ↓ -46% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $207.72 | ↓ -45% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $211.68 | ↓ -44% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $213.66 | ↓ -43% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $213.66 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $216.90 | ↓ -42% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $216.90 | ↓ -42% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $217.61 | ↓ -42% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $217.61 | ↓ -42% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $217.61 | ↓ -42% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $237.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $257.18 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | New Business | $267.51 | ↓ -29% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $276.96 | ↓ -27% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $325.35 | ↓ -14% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $368.73 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | New Business | $390.42 | ↑ +4% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $395.66 | ↑ +5% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $397.65 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | PPO | $397.65 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | PPO | $433.80 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | EPO | $433.80 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | HMO | $433.80 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | POS | $433.80 | ↑ +15% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $469.95 | ↑ +25% |
| Phcs | PPO | $469.95 | ↑ +25% |
| First Health | PPO | $469.95 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $469.95 | ↑ +25% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $506.10 | ↑ +34% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $542.25 | ↑ +44% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $578.40 | ↑ +53% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $578.40 | ↑ +53% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $578.40 | ↑ +53% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $578.40 | ↑ +53% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $686.85 | ↑ +82% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,493.00 | ↑ +296% |
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Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,833.06 | $148.46 – $148.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $488.60 | $118.38 – $610.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $558.06 | $114.87 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $527.15 | $105.43 – $658.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $488.60 | $90.23 – $610.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $558.06 | $142.29 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $558.06 | $288.33 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $527.15 | $116.45 – $790.73 |