CT hrt w/3d image at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$873.38
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.
$2,228.00
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.
$212.89 with MHS Hospice vs $1,015.00 with Aetna — 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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| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $212.89 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $218.16 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $218.16 | ↓ -75% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $218.16 | ↓ -75% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $218.16 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $218.16 | ↓ -75% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $227.06 | ↓ -74% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $227.06 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $268.34 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $268.34 | ↓ -69% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $274.05 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $401.74 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $401.74 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -48% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $507.50 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $568.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $629.30 | ↓ -28% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $862.75 | ↓ -1% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $862.75 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $954.10 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $974.40 | ↑ +12% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $994.70 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $1,015.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $1,015.00 | ↑ +16% |
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CT hrt w/3d image at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,184.75 | $330.06 – $3,890.64 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,095.26 | $218.16 – $2,295.16 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,708.96 | $218.16 – $1,533.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $290.50 | $218.16 – $626.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $287.37 | $218.16 – $618.57 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,701.47 | $291.55 – $1,392.37 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,141.49 | $291.55 – $1,522.57 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,477.35 | $218.16 – $2,183.66 |