Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section each additional block at Mark Twain Medical Center
768 Mountain Ranch Rd, San Andreas, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1508968819
$17.55
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.
$26.34
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.
$3.11 with Health Net vs $12.00 with Health Plan of San Joaquin — 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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| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.11 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $6.50 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Select | $6.98 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $7.68 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO | $7.68 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $7.68 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|Choice | $8.01 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.33 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $8.97 | ↓ -49% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.00 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.41 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $9.81 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.81 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9.81 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $10.20 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.74 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10.74 | ↓ -39% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.76 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.00 | ↓ -32% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.00 | ↓ -32% |
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Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section each additional block at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $118.26 | $28.90 – $210.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $97.41 | $46.20 – $68.09 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $7.87 | $9.19 – $63.31 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $7.21 | $4.96 – $74.42 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $26.35 | $15.50 – $70.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $26.06 | $15.50 – $70.60 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $83.13 | $46.20 – $86.05 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $170.34 | $46.20 – $97.58 |