Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$1,280.67
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.
$4,356.00
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.
$179.75 with BCBS - Anthem vs $26,377.00 with United — 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $179.75 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $179.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $179.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $179.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $224.68 | ↓ -82% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $224.68 | ↓ -82% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $291.51 | ↓ -77% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $308.65 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $342.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $703.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $832.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $832.44 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,315.92 | ↑ +3% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $1,783.80 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,803.66 | ↑ +41% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,378.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,459.28 | ↑ +92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,459.28 | ↑ +92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,534.29 | ↑ +98% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,854.08 | ↑ +123% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3,171.20 | ↑ +148% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,250.48 | ↑ +154% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,870.00 | ↑ +593% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $13,448.00 | ↑ +950% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $26,377.00 | ↑ +1960% |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,241.30 | $221.09 – $2,210.52 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,143.52 | $48.34 – $1,830.39 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,428.51 | $321.54 – $1,094.08 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,436.80 | $179.75 – $2,597.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $6,036.63 | $120.30 – $455.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,157.57 | $179.75 – $1,809.08 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,031.01 | $179.75 – $2,223.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,019.90 | $179.75 – $2,195.41 |