Mayo gamma-globin full gene sequencing at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$1,372.00
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.
$3,500.00
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.
$6.34 with MHS HSPCC vs $509.01 with Cigna — 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 HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $6.34 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $11.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $13.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $14.56 | ↓ -99% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $19.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $19.95 | ↓ -99% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $23.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $23.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $23.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $509.01 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $509.01 | ↓ -63% |
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Mayo gamma-globin full gene sequencing at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $569.40 | $13.50 – $445.88 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $520.61 | $78.31 – $185.27 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,498.00 | $11.74 – $432.99 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,065.60 | $12.94 – $49.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,094.45 | $7.00 – $482.91 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,082.65 | $10.00 – $482.91 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $1,684.45 | $1.90 – $15.20 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $867.30 | $0.32 – $984.38 |