Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic subcutaneous/im at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$140.34
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.
$358.00
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.
$21.52 with Partnership Health Plan vs $1,430.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $21.52 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.52 | ↓ -85% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.77 | ↓ -83% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.77 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.47 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.47 | ↓ -81% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $70.65 | ↓ -50% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $84.78 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $157.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $164.29 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $175.84 | ↑ +25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $194.68 | ↑ +39% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $211.67 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $242.90 | ↑ +73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $242.90 | ↑ +73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $249.58 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $266.90 | ↑ +90% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $266.90 | ↑ +90% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $274.13 | ↑ +95% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $307.72 | ↑ +119% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $314.00 | ↑ +124% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $314.00 | ↑ +124% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $702.00 | ↑ +400% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,380.00 | ↑ +883% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,430.00 | ↑ +919% |
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Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic subcutaneous/im at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $121.77 | $26.47 – $1,951.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $83.08 | $14.23 – $125.13 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $87.72 | $97.03 – $99.01 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $153.23 | $21.52 – $995.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $132.54 | $13.20 – $49.98 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $243.38 | $21.52 – $437.06 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $240.76 | $21.52 – $437.06 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $175.95 | $102.23 – $102.23 |