Observation per hour at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$177.54
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.
$538.00
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.
$23.54 with Driscoll Children's Health Plan vs $4,121.00 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 |
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| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Star KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| First Care | KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| El Paso First | KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Community First | Star KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $23.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $25.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $25.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $25.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $25.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $25.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $25.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $25.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $32.10 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $38.52 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $38.52 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $38.52 | ↓ -78% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $44.94 | ↓ -75% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $52.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | MM | $60.88 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $64.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $64.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | New Business | $79.18 | ↓ -55% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $85.60 | ↓ -52% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $85.60 | ↓ -52% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $96.30 | ↓ -46% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $107.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | New Business | $115.56 | ↓ -35% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $117.70 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | PPO | $117.70 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | PPO | $128.40 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | EPO | $128.40 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | HMO | $128.40 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | POS | $128.40 | ↓ -28% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $128.40 | ↓ -28% |
| First Health | PPO | $139.10 | ↓ -22% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $139.10 | ↓ -22% |
| Phcs | PPO | $139.10 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $139.10 | ↓ -22% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $149.80 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $154.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $160.50 | ↓ -10% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $171.20 | ↓ -4% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $171.20 | ↓ -4% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $171.20 | ↓ -4% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $171.20 | ↓ -4% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $181.90 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $189.00 | ↑ +6% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $191.00 | ↑ +8% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $203.30 | ↑ +15% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $211.00 | ↑ +19% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $222.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1,913.00 | ↑ +978% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $4,121.00 | ↑ +2221% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Observation per hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $644.35 | $489.80 – $489.80 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $107.81 | $30.55 – $390.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $82.93 | $17.07 – $124.40 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $82.93 | $16.59 – $384.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $107.81 | $28.75 – $297.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $82.93 | $26.62 – $469.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $82.93 | $42.85 – $124.40 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $82.93 | $27.64 – $384.20 |