Irrigation implantable venous access device for drug delivery systems at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$137.60
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.
$351.00
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.
$64.27 with MHS Hospice vs $1,595.00 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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| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $64.27 | ↓ -53% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $73.98 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $75.47 | ↓ -45% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $137.00 | ↓ -0% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $153.44 | ↑ +12% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $169.88 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $192.13 | ↑ +40% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $232.90 | ↑ +69% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $232.90 | ↑ +69% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $252.08 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $265.78 | ↑ +93% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $268.52 | ↑ +95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $268.52 | ↑ +95% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $274.00 | ↑ +99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $297.00 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $297.00 | ↑ +116% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $322.92 | ↑ +135% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $322.92 | ↑ +135% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,081.00 | ↑ +686% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1,595.00 | ↑ +1059% |
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Irrigation implantable venous access device for drug delivery systems at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $132.28 | $41.35 – $250.66 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $202.86 | $11.88 – $305.55 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $123.93 | $79.50 – $81.12 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $150.23 | $69.00 – $999.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $198.47 | $77.10 – $292.04 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $155.82 | $64.53 – $195.98 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $154.14 | $14.11 – $438.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $240.21 | $83.76 – $83.76 |