Brain image w/flow 4 + views at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$361.04
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.
$1,228.00
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.
$144.48 with Kaiser vs $5,230.11 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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| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $144.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $144.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $228.33 | ↓ -37% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $228.33 | ↓ -37% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $228.33 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $228.33 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $228.33 | ↓ -37% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $228.33 | ↓ -37% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $309.60 | ↓ -14% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $412.80 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $454.08 | ↑ +26% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $495.36 | ↑ +37% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $563.98 | ↑ +56% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $564.16 | ↑ +56% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $584.80 | ↑ +62% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $619.20 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $619.20 | ↑ +72% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $763.70 | ↑ +112% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $763.70 | ↑ +112% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,230.11 | ↑ +1349% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,230.11 | ↑ +1349% |
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Brain image w/flow 4 + views at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,503.22 | $345.45 – $2,676.96 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,039.42 | $228.33 – $4,445.28 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,722.28 | $228.33 – $3,968.02 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,627.59 | $228.33 – $2,704.43 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $470.06 | $228.33 – $2,565.73 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $464.99 | $228.33 – $2,565.73 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,516.34 | $755.17 – $1,130.33 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,138.03 | $698.35 – $1,281.80 |