Tc-99m mebrofenin at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon
11503 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1194787218
$172.91
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.
$523.96
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.
$47.52 with Superior vs $410.40 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 |
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| Superior | Star KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| First Care | KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| El Paso First | KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Star KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Chip KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Community First | Star Kids KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Community First | Star KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Community First | Chip KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $47.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $51.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $51.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $51.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Community First | Med Adv MM | $51.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $51.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $51.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $51.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | MM | $54.43 | ↓ -69% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $64.80 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $77.76 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $77.76 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $77.76 | ↓ -55% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $90.72 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $113.46 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $127.45 | ↓ -26% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $129.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $129.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue AdvantangeHMO | $141.61 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | New Business | $159.84 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $172.46 | ↓ -0% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $172.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $172.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $174.67 | ↑ +1% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $193.95 | ↑ +12% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $194.40 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $204.42 | ↑ +18% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $216.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Community First Health Plan | HMO | $220.32 | ↑ +27% |
| Christian Brothers Services | PPO | $237.60 | ↑ +37% |
| Cigna | PPO | $237.60 | ↑ +37% |
| Phcs | PPO | $259.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $259.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $259.20 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | PPO | $280.80 | ↑ +62% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $280.80 | ↑ +62% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $302.40 | ↑ +75% |
| Medicus Internatiaonal | PPO | $324.00 | ↑ +87% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $345.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $345.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $345.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $345.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $367.20 | ↑ +112% |
| National Choicecare | PPO | $410.40 | ↑ +137% |
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Tc-99m mebrofenin at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $893.78 | $108.00 – $646.54 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $1,280.09 | $108.00 – $646.54 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $1,328.96 | $108.00 – $646.54 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $239.40 | $60.06 – $498.13 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $103.60 | $49.59 – $296.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $71.05 | $51.73 – $365.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $157.65 | $100.00 – $945.90 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $769.84 | $108.00 – $646.54 |