Administration chemotherapy IV push single/initial substance/drug at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$429.64
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.
$1,096.00
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.
$20.61 with Partnership Health Plan vs $9,050.00 with Cigna — 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $20.61 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $20.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $20.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $20.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $20.61 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.78 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.78 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.35 | ↓ -94% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $214.66 | ↓ -50% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $269.19 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -2% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $498.50 | ↑ +16% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $558.32 | ↑ +30% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $618.14 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $846.91 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $847.45 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $847.45 | ↑ +97% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $917.24 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $977.06 | ↑ +127% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $997.00 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $997.00 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $997.00 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $997.00 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $997.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,081.00 | ↑ +152% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1,595.00 | ↑ +271% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,050.00 | ↑ +2006% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,050.00 | ↑ +2006% |
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Administration chemotherapy IV push single/initial substance/drug at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $529.98 | $25.35 – $958.65 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $249.96 | $29.63 – $479.18 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $472.26 | $445.12 – $454.21 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $469.09 | $20.61 – $11,311.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,096.91 | $20.61 – $1,614.06 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $322.60 | $20.61 – $635.35 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $537.03 | $468.99 – $468.99 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $362.10 | $424.83 – $424.83 |