Revision tips at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$9,023.19
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.
$27,343.00
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.
$3,007.73 with Aetna vs $25,975.85 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 | Chip KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Community First | Star KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| First Care | KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| El Paso First | KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star KM | $3,007.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $3,281.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $3,281.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $3,281.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $3,281.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $3,281.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $3,281.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $3,281.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $4,020.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $4,508.06 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $4,921.74 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $4,921.74 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $4,921.74 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $4,967.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Wellcare | MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $5,353.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | New Business | $5,433.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $5,514.22 | ↓ -39% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $5,514.22 | ↓ -39% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $5,621.29 | ↓ -38% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $5,728.36 | ↓ -37% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $5,781.90 | ↓ -36% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $5,781.90 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $5,796.07 | ↓ -36% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $5,888.97 | ↓ -35% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $5,888.97 | ↓ -35% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $5,888.97 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $5,944.69 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | HMO | $6,036.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | PPO | $6,036.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EPO | $6,036.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | POS | $6,036.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business | $6,421.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $6,424.33 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $6,588.70 | ↓ -27% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $6,782.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $6,786.86 | ↓ -25% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $6,959.69 | ↓ -23% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $7,495.05 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | PPO | $8,152.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $8,202.90 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $8,202.90 | ↓ -9% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $10,707.22 | ↑ +19% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $13,124.64 | ↑ +45% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $15,038.65 | ↑ +67% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $17,772.95 | ↑ +97% |
| Phcs | PPO | $17,772.95 | ↑ +97% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $17,772.95 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | PPO | $17,772.95 | ↑ +97% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $20,507.25 | ↑ +127% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $21,777.00 | ↑ +141% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $21,874.40 | ↑ +142% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $21,874.40 | ↑ +142% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $21,874.40 | ↑ +142% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $21,874.40 | ↑ +142% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $25,975.85 | ↑ +188% |
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| CHRISTUS Children's Hospital | San Antonio | not published | $7,184.00 – $7,184.00 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $13,111.45 | $71.00 – $16,389.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $11,218.30 | $2,991.55 – $14,159.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $14,711.04 | $85.00 – $22,066.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $14,711.04 | $7,600.70 – $22,066.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $13,111.45 | $71.00 – $19,667.17 |