Remove renal tube w/fluoro at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$2,646.79
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.
$6,752.00
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.
$521.64 with Partnership Health Plan vs $8,190.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $521.64 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $521.64 | ↓ -80% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $521.64 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $521.64 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $521.64 | ↓ -80% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $573.26 | ↓ -78% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $573.26 | ↓ -78% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $635.85 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $641.62 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $641.62 | ↓ -76% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $650.19 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,295.25 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $1,318.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,460.10 | ↓ -45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,001.75 | ↓ -24% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,001.75 | ↓ -24% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,166.60 | ↓ -18% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,307.90 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $4,063.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $4,363.00 | ↑ +65% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,243.00 | ↑ +98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,432.00 | ↑ +105% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $5,556.00 | ↑ +110% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $8,190.00 | ↑ +209% |
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Remove renal tube w/fluoro at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $553.20 | $341.01 – $1,569.60 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,889.86 | $521.64 – $2,266.74 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $684.50 | $521.64 – $1,476.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $677.12 | $521.64 – $1,457.55 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,220.94 | $990.07 – $7,483.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $697.68 | $896.84 – $8,018.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $495.39 | $171.57 – $817.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $826.71 | $970.26 – $4,042.00 |