Hydroxyurea 500 mg at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$13.29
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.
$40.26
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.
$0.55 with Aetna vs $12.74 with National Choicecare — 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 | MM | $0.55 | ↓ -96% |
| First Care | KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| El Paso First | KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Community First | Star KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Star KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $1.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $1.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $1.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $1.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $1.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $1.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $1.61 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $1.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1.92 | ↓ -86% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $2.01 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $2.32 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $2.35 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $2.41 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $2.41 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $2.41 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $2.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $2.75 | ↓ -79% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $2.81 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $4.02 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $4.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $4.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | New Business | $4.96 | ↓ -63% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $5.36 | ↓ -60% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $5.36 | ↓ -60% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $6.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $6.71 | ↓ -50% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $6.84 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | New Business | $7.24 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | PPO | $7.38 | ↓ -44% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $7.38 | ↓ -44% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $8.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | POS | $8.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Phcs | PPO | $8.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $8.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | HMO | $8.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EPO | $8.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | PPO | $8.05 | ↓ -39% |
| First Health | PPO | $8.72 | ↓ -34% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $8.72 | ↓ -34% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $9.39 | ↓ -29% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $10.06 | ↓ -24% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $10.73 | ↓ -19% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $10.73 | ↓ -19% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $10.73 | ↓ -19% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $10.73 | ↓ -19% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $11.40 | ↓ -14% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $12.74 | ↓ -4% |
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Hydroxyurea 500 mg at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $6.80 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $55.92 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $52.10 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $54.19 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $51.84 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $35.37 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $55.00 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $49.92 | $0.99 – $9.84 |