Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon

11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 12, 2026 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

$55.46

Cash price

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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.

$168.07

Gross charge

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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.

$2.91 with Driscoll Children's Health Plan vs $30.79 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Driscoll Children's Health Plan Star Kids KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas Star Chip KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
First Care KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Community First Chip KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Superior Star Kids KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Superior Star KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Superior Foster Care KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
El Paso First KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Superior Star Plus KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Superior Chip KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Community First Star KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Community First Star Kids KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Aetna Chip KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Driscoll Children's Health Plan Chip KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Driscoll Children's Health Plan Star KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Aetna Star KM $2.91 ↓ -95%
Texas Childrens Health Plan Chip KM $3.17 ↓ -94%
Amerigroup Chip KM $3.17 ↓ -94%
Amerigroup Star Plus KM $3.17 ↓ -94%
Amerigroup Star KM $3.17 ↓ -94%
Amerigroup Star Kids KM $3.17 ↓ -94%
Community First Med Adv MM $3.17 ↓ -94%
Texas Childrens Health Plan Star Plus KM $3.17 ↓ -94%
Christus Health Med Adv MM $3.97 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Star Plus KM $4.76 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Star KM $4.76 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Chip KM $4.76 ↓ -91%
Christus Health HIX $5.56 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare All Payer $6.64 ↓ -88%
Aetna MM $6.93 ↓ -88%
Aetna New Business $7.27 ↓ -87%
Molina Chip KM $7.94 ↓ -86%
Molina Star Plus KM $7.94 ↓ -86%
Aetna PPO $8.08 ↓ -85%
Aetna POS $8.08 ↓ -85%
Aetna HMO $8.08 ↓ -85%
Aetna EPO $8.08 ↓ -85%
Cigna New Business $9.79 ↓ -82%
Imperial Health Plan MM $10.59 ↓ -81%
Amerigroup MM $10.59 ↓ -81%
Healthcare Highways PPO $11.91 ↓ -79%
Devoted Health Plan MM $13.24 ↓ -76%
Humana Choicecare $13.24 ↓ -76%
Community First Health Plan HMO $13.50 ↓ -76%
Christian Brothers Services PPO $14.56 ↓ -74%
Cigna PPO $14.56 ↓ -74%
Multiplan PPO $15.88 ↓ -71%
Naphcare Inc. RRMB $15.88 ↓ -71%
Phcs PPO $15.88 ↓ -71%
Healthsmart Accel PPO $17.21 ↓ -69%
First Health PPO $17.21 ↓ -69%
Five Point Credit Union PPO $18.53 ↓ -67%
Medicus Internatiaonal PPO $19.86 ↓ -64%
HealthSmart PPO $21.18 ↓ -62%
Health Management Network PPO $21.18 ↓ -62%
Provider Select PPO $21.18 ↓ -62%
Beech Street PPO $21.18 ↓ -62%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Blue AdvantangeHMO $21.33 ↓ -62%
Triwest VA MM $22.50 ↓ -59%
National Choicecare PPO $25.15 ↓ -55%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas HMO $25.98 ↓ -53%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas HEB $26.31 ↓ -53%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas PPO $29.22 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Traditional $30.79 ↓ -44%

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Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at other Texas hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Adventhealth Rollins Brook Lampasas $57.47 $31.96 – $31.96
Covenant Children's Hospital Lubbock $57.96 $28.23 – $31.04
HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST SPRING $19.69 $6.64 – $19.67
Baylor St Luke's Medical Center Houston $22.12 $12.03 – $54.64
St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin Lufkin $10.59 $6.11 – $39.23
St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital Spring $22.12 $12.03 – $54.64
St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital Sugar Land $22.12 $12.03 – $54.64
St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital The Woodlands $22.12 $12.03 – $54.64

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