Ablation cryo thigh/knee at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$584.48
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.
$1,988.00
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.
$202.65 with Kaiser vs $4,868.00 with Health Net — 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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| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $202.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $202.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $289.29 | ↓ -51% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $306.31 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $340.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $482.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $579.00 | ↓ -1% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $694.80 | ↑ +19% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $791.30 | ↑ +35% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $810.60 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $810.60 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $858.85 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $965.00 | ↑ +65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,589.00 | ↑ +343% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,155.00 | ↑ +440% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,155.00 | ↑ +440% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,155.00 | ↑ +440% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,199.00 | ↑ +447% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,189.00 | ↑ +617% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,262.00 | ↑ +629% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $4,868.00 | ↑ +733% |
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Ablation cryo thigh/knee at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | not published | $320.36 – $320.36 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $259.33 | $188.73 – $559.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $256.54 | $188.73 – $552.21 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $2,334.27 | $332.35 – $3,982.87 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $366.68 | $101.64 – $304.92 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | not published | $304.79 – $519.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $332.41 – $1,921.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | not published | $304.79 – $304.79 |