Ven blood coll snf/hha at French Hospital
1911 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1881760452
$34.89
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.
$89.00
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.
$5.00 with MHS Hospice vs $87.22 with MultiPlan — 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 | $5.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $15.15 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.15 | ↓ -57% |
| MHS HSPCC | Commercial|All Plans | $24.03 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $42.72 | ↑ +22% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $44.50 | ↑ +28% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $49.84 | ↑ +43% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $55.18 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $60.52 | ↑ +73% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $75.65 | ↑ +117% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $75.65 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $81.88 | ↑ +135% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $87.22 | ↑ +150% |
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Ven blood coll snf/hha at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $38.10 | $5.00 – $87.22 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $11.99 | $3.08 – $21.56 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $6.31 | $2.53 – $19.09 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $5.02 | $4.28 – $18.40 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $8.95 | $2.53 – $18.86 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $6.31 | $2.53 – $23.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $6.63 | $4.28 – $19.09 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $11.34 – $11.34 |