Biopsy needle liver percutaneous at Mark Twain Medical Center
768 Mountain Ranch Rd, San Andreas, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1508968819
$2,267.07
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.
$3,404.00
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.
$71.92 with BCBS - Anthem vs $272.44 with Multiplan — 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $71.92 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $150.49 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Select | $161.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $177.92 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $177.92 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO | $177.92 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Choice | $185.54 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $192.94 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $193.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $193.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $193.10 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $193.10 | ↓ -91% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $193.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $207.67 | ↓ -91% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $208.50 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $217.98 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $227.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $227.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $227.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $236.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $248.81 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $248.81 | ↓ -89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $272.44 | ↓ -88% |
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Biopsy needle liver percutaneous at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $841.84 | $237.51 – $3,763.88 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $720.36 | $277.66 – $1,338.60 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $3,265.64 | $193.10 – $6,580.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,901.20 | $193.10 – $3,215.38 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,941.45 | $193.10 – $4,186.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,920.52 | $193.10 – $4,134.07 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,971.26 | $2,345.04 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,381.01 | $2,124.23 – $9,858.00 |