Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (with and without contrast) at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$4,181.43
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.
$12,671.00
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.
$167.67 with Texas Healthspring vs $2,371.20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $167.67 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $299.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $299.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $299.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $299.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $299.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellcare | MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $335.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $345.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $345.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $352.11 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $359.19 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $359.19 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $359.19 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $362.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $362.17 | ↓ -91% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $368.87 | ↓ -91% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $368.87 | ↓ -91% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $368.87 | ↓ -91% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $402.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $435.94 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| El Paso First | KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Community First | Star KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Star KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| First Care | KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $464.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $469.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $487.43 | ↓ -88% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $487.43 | ↓ -88% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $670.68 | ↓ -84% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $880.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $1,073.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1,178.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $1,185.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $1,317.38 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $1,332.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $1,372.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $1,481.58 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | New Business | $1,541.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $1,557.95 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | New Business | $1,577.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Phcs | PPO | $1,622.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,622.40 | ↓ -61% |
| First Health | PPO | $1,622.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $1,622.40 | ↓ -61% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $1,641.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | POS | $1,752.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,752.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | EPO | $1,752.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,752.00 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,869.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $1,872.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,956.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $1,996.80 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $1,996.80 | ↓ -52% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $1,996.80 | ↓ -52% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,996.80 | ↓ -52% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $2,251.00 | ↓ -46% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $2,371.20 | ↓ -43% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (with and without contrast) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $5,565.11 | $1,779.42 – $1,779.42 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,196.33 | $329.13 – $3,995.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,200.98 | $494.01 – $4,801.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,167.94 | $329.13 – $3,959.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,196.33 | $329.13 – $3,995.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,200.98 | $332.94 – $4,801.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,200.98 | $329.13 – $4,801.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,167.94 | $329.13 – $4,751.91 |