Fl exam g/colon tube w contrast at Mark Twain Medical Center
768 Mountain Ranch Rd, San Andreas, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1508968819
$718.62
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.
$1,079.00
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.
$121.85 with Health Net vs $461.58 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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| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $121.85 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $141.10 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $141.10 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $141.10 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $141.10 | ↓ -80% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $141.10 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $289.10 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|Select | $319.81 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $340.54 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $340.54 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO | $340.54 | ↓ -53% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $353.25 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|Choice | $366.44 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $370.63 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $378.69 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $384.81 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $384.81 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $384.81 | ↓ -46% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $400.35 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $421.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $421.55 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $432.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $461.58 | ↓ -36% |
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Fl exam g/colon tube w contrast at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $191.41 | $117.99 – $586.14 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $573.75 | $321.54 – $1,921.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $319.72 | $141.10 – $496.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $339.08 | $104.49 – $379.26 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $241.15 | $141.10 – $520.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $238.55 | $141.10 – $513.50 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $512.55 | $338.78 – $6,200.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,381.01 | $306.88 – $8,018.00 |