Device ablt adv novasure at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$2,504.88
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.
$6,390.00
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.
$933.66 with Health Net vs $4,815.72 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 | $933.66 | ↓ -63% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,130.22 | ↓ -55% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,130.22 | ↓ -55% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $1,326.78 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,457.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,457.00 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,555.28 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,899.26 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,948.40 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,948.40 | ↑ +18% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,046.68 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $3,538.08 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $3,832.92 | ↑ +53% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,176.90 | ↑ +67% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,176.90 | ↑ +67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $4,471.74 | ↑ +79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $4,520.88 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $4,619.16 | ↑ +84% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4,619.16 | ↑ +84% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,815.72 | ↑ +92% |
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Device ablt adv novasure at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $7,999.20 | $1,533.12 – $4,982.64 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $11,844.95 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,734.92 | $1,130.22 – $4,815.72 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $9,788.84 | $1,365.00 – $4,914.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $7,448.27 | $1,365.00 – $5,296.20 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $9,394.20 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,322.49 | not published |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $4,896.00 | not published |