Pr egd flexible transoral w/placement percutaneous gastrostomy tube at Mark Twain Medical Center
768 Mountain Ranch Rd, San Andreas, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1508968819
$495.51
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.
$744.00
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.
$192.48 with Health Net vs $729.12 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 | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $192.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $277.70 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $277.70 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $277.70 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $277.70 | ↓ -44% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $277.70 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $402.73 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|Select | $432.72 | ↓ -13% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO | $476.16 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $476.16 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $476.16 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|Choice | $496.55 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $516.34 | ↑ +4% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $555.77 | ↑ +12% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $558.00 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $583.38 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $607.85 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $607.85 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $607.85 | ↑ +23% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $632.40 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $665.88 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $665.88 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $729.12 | ↑ +47% |
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Pr egd flexible transoral w/placement percutaneous gastrostomy tube at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,205.35 | $2,570.00 – $4,657.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,735.54 | $277.70 – $3,742.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,716.83 | $277.70 – $3,695.62 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $3,379.77 | $2,724.58 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,657.10 | $2,468.04 – $9,858.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,776.33 | $2,585.43 – $5,198.77 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $2,664.75 | $8,005.00 – $25,998.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $3,706.17 | $277.70 – $5,139.96 |