Culture anaerobic except blood at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$161.12
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.
$548.00
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.
$8.05 with Medcore vs $246.00 with MultiPlan — 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 | $8.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $8.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $8.52 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.36 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11.36 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.36 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.36 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.08 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.08 | ↓ -93% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.84 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $55.51 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $55.51 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $63.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $65.34 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $65.34 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $65.34 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $92.87 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $127.29 | ↓ -21% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $135.00 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $178.86 | ↑ +11% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $180.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $189.00 | ↑ +17% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $216.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $234.00 | ↑ +45% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $246.00 | ↑ +53% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture anaerobic except blood at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $274.66 | $9.47 – $329.60 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $265.87 | $9.47 – $29.55 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $16.18 | $1.89 – $17.46 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $419.22 | $9.28 – $77.21 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $261.51 | $9.47 – $27.44 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $123.21 | $9.47 – $181.30 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $239.52 | $8.10 – $29.40 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $192.18 | $9.47 – $96.00 |