Cath bi-dir df smarttouch at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$9,308.83
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.
$23,747.00
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.
$325.85 with Health Net vs $1,680.70 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 | Commercial|FFS | $325.85 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $394.45 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $394.45 | ↓ -96% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $463.05 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $857.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $857.50 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $891.80 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,011.85 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,029.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,029.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,063.30 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $1,234.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $1,337.70 | ↓ -86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,457.75 | ↓ -84% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,457.75 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,560.65 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,577.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1,612.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,612.10 | ↓ -83% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,680.70 | ↓ -82% |
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Cath bi-dir df smarttouch at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $7,999.20 | $602.64 – $1,740.96 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $19,023.41 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $10,163.72 | $394.45 – $1,680.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $706.76 | $476.25 – $1,714.50 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $7,448.27 | $476.25 – $1,847.85 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $19,023.41 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $7,603.11 | not published |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $9,073.67 | not published |