Repair achilles tendon at Mark Twain Medical Center
768 Mountain Ranch Rd, San Andreas, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1508968819
$1,160.18
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.
$1,742.00
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.
$450.66 with Health Net vs $1,707.16 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 | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $450.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $532.32 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $532.32 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $532.32 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $532.32 | ↓ -54% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $532.32 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $942.95 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|Select | $1,013.15 | ↓ -13% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO | $1,114.88 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $1,114.88 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,114.88 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|Choice | $1,162.62 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,208.95 | ↑ +4% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $1,301.28 | ↑ +12% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,306.50 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,365.91 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,423.22 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,423.22 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,423.22 | ↑ +23% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,480.70 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,559.09 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,559.09 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,707.16 | ↑ +47% |
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Repair achilles tendon at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $13,465.53 | $2,937.00 – $11,185.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $14,575.80 | $7,745.00 – $17,909.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $13,017.24 | $8,925.00 – $17,611.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $6,746.79 | $3,572.00 – $9,776.62 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $8,433.87 | $9,031.00 – $36,398.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $14,413.11 | $3,423.00 – $11,377.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $4,265.28 | $7,883.00 – $9,990.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $5,127.85 | $1,747.00 – $12,132.52 |