Screening Colonoscopy (average risk) at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$1,668.15
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.
$5,055.00
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.
$246.00 with Amerigroup vs $5,774.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $246.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $246.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $246.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $246.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $246.00 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $271.37 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $271.37 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $271.37 | ↓ -84% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| First Care | KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| El Paso First | KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | Star KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $328.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Community First | Star KM | $344.93 | ↓ -79% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $344.93 | ↓ -79% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $344.93 | ↓ -79% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $344.93 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $695.13 | ↓ -58% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Wellcare | MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $856.08 | ↓ -49% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $881.76 | ↓ -47% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $881.76 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $893.74 | ↓ -46% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $898.88 | ↓ -46% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $916.01 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $916.66 | ↓ -45% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $924.57 | ↓ -45% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $924.57 | ↓ -45% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $941.69 | ↓ -44% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $941.69 | ↓ -44% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $941.69 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $1,015.96 | ↓ -39% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $1,027.30 | ↓ -38% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $1,045.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $1,046.52 | ↓ -37% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $1,112.90 | ↓ -33% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $1,127.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $1,198.51 | ↓ -28% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,332.50 | ↓ -20% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $1,332.50 | ↓ -20% |
| Phcs | PPO | $1,332.50 | ↓ -20% |
| First Health | PPO | $1,332.50 | ↓ -20% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $1,435.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $1,537.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $1,640.00 | ↓ -2% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $1,640.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,640.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $1,640.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1,672.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $1,712.16 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,943.00 | ↑ +16% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $1,947.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | New Business | $2,335.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2,594.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,594.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | POS | $2,594.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | EPO | $2,594.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $2,963.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Cigna | New Business | $4,549.00 | ↑ +173% |
| Cigna | PPO | $5,774.00 | ↑ +246% |
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Screening Colonoscopy (average risk) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $1,376.20 | $2,359.20 – $2,949.00 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $8,175.65 | $934.20 – $2,265.00 |
| CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont | Beaumont | $1,011.12 | $328.50 – $1,826.38 |
| MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL | Argyle | $4,631.82 | $323.57 – $993.04 |
| MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL | SAGINAW | $3,658.14 | $328.50 – $1,099.99 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $954.85 – $2,234.24 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | not published | $328.50 – $4,063.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | not published | $351.50 – $3,421.00 |