Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$452.37
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.
$1,154.00
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.
$63.71 with Partnership Health Plan vs $911.66 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $63.71 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $63.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $63.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $63.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $63.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $78.36 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $78.36 | ↓ -83% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $80.28 | ↓ -82% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $80.28 | ↓ -82% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $193.32 | ↓ -57% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $214.66 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $267.70 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $344.73 | ↓ -24% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $347.64 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $347.64 | ↓ -23% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $358.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $400.96 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $416.57 | ↓ -8% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $443.92 | ↓ -2% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $608.60 | ↑ +35% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $608.60 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $632.84 | ↑ +40% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $694.52 | ↑ +54% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $701.68 | ↑ +55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $701.68 | ↑ +55% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $703.94 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $807.80 | ↑ +79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $807.80 | ↑ +79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $911.66 | ↑ +102% |
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Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $646.49 | $68.70 – $1,951.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $343.87 | $42.14 – $498.58 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,412.19 | $286.64 – $452.98 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $493.92 | $63.71 – $995.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $577.43 | $4.14 – $16.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $543.52 | $63.71 – $1,201.30 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $537.66 | $63.71 – $1,201.30 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $661.47 | $302.01 – $452.98 |