Assay of fluoride at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$31.46
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.
$107.00
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.
$15.76 with Medcore vs $108.59 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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| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $15.76 | ↓ -50% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $15.76 | ↓ -50% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $16.69 | ↓ -47% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.25 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $22.25 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $22.25 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $22.25 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $22.47 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.47 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.64 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.64 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.64 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.64 | ↓ -25% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $23.64 | ↓ -25% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.64 | ↓ -25% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $48.15 | ↑ +53% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $58.39 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $64.20 | ↑ +104% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $67.41 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $70.62 | ↑ +124% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $77.04 | ↑ +145% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $83.46 | ↑ +165% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $87.74 | ↑ +179% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $96.30 | ↑ +206% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $107.00 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $107.00 | ↑ +240% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $107.00 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $107.00 | ↑ +240% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $108.59 | ↑ +245% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $108.59 | ↑ +245% |
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Assay of fluoride at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $61.10 | $10.70 – $85.60 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $46.23 | $18.54 – $105.84 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $42.34 | $18.54 – $105.84 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $39.70 | $18.54 – $85.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $39.27 | $18.54 – $84.53 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $83.25 | $16.48 – $104.86 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $55.11 | $18.54 – $100.58 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $58.86 | $18.54 – $105.84 |