Sputum specimen collection at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$204.60
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.
$620.00
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.
$20.13 with First Care vs $532.39 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Care | KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| El Paso First | KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | Star KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Community First | Star KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $20.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $21.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $21.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $21.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $21.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $21.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $21.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $21.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $29.36 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | New Business | $31.94 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $32.94 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $32.94 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $32.94 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | EPO | $35.49 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | PPO | $35.49 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | POS | $35.49 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | HMO | $35.49 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | New Business | $47.97 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $54.90 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $54.90 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | PPO | $60.75 | ↓ -70% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $80.45 | ↓ -61% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $80.52 | ↓ -61% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $82.35 | ↓ -60% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $100.65 | ↓ -51% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $118.95 | ↓ -42% |
| First Health | PPO | $118.95 | ↓ -42% |
| Phcs | PPO | $118.95 | ↓ -42% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $118.95 | ↓ -42% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $128.10 | ↓ -37% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $137.25 | ↓ -33% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $146.40 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $146.40 | ↓ -28% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $146.40 | ↓ -28% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $146.40 | ↓ -28% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Wellcare | MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $160.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $165.73 | ↓ -19% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $165.73 | ↓ -19% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $168.95 | ↓ -17% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $172.16 | ↓ -16% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $173.77 | ↓ -15% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $173.77 | ↓ -15% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $173.85 | ↓ -15% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $176.99 | ↓ -13% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $176.99 | ↓ -13% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $176.99 | ↓ -13% |
| Employer Direct | Healthcare PPO | $193.08 | ↓ -6% |
| Gilsbar Inc. | MM | $209.17 | ↑ +2% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $225.26 | ↑ +10% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $321.80 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $367.29 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $368.80 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $449.16 | ↑ +120% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $454.90 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $505.12 | ↑ +147% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $532.39 | ↑ +160% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $120.37 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $120.46 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $192.85 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $120.37 | $10.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $120.46 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $120.46 | $8.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $192.85 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $120.37 | $10.00 – $423.12 |