Assay of osteocalcin at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$10.88
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.
$37.00
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.
$7.77 with Kaiser vs $174.83 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $7.77 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.77 | ↓ -29% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $16.65 | ↑ +53% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $22.20 | ↑ +104% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $23.31 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $24.42 | ↑ +124% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $25.37 | ↑ +133% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $25.37 | ↑ +133% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $26.64 | ↑ +145% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $26.86 | ↑ +147% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.86 | ↑ +165% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $29.85 | ↑ +174% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $30.34 | ↑ +179% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $33.30 | ↑ +206% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.82 | ↑ +229% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $35.82 | ↑ +229% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $35.82 | ↑ +229% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $35.82 | ↑ +229% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $37.00 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.00 | ↑ +240% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $37.00 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $37.00 | ↑ +240% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $174.83 | ↑ +1507% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $174.83 | ↑ +1507% |
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Assay of osteocalcin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $21.13 | $3.70 – $29.60 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.76 | $5.74 – $13.58 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $73.95 | $29.25 – $95.57 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $15.84 | $18.50 – $76.90 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $24.65 | $20.03 – $36.26 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $14.51 | $9.99 – $90.40 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $13.73 | $18.50 – $85.77 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $13.58 | $18.50 – $85.77 |