Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$1,895.42
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.
$6,447.00
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.
$239.76 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 | $239.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $239.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $239.76 | ↓ -87% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $239.76 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $239.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $239.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $592.21 | ↓ -69% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $661.24 | ↓ -65% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $700.14 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $777.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $1,353.87 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,353.87 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $2,187.18 | ↑ +15% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $2,901.15 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $2,997.86 | ↑ +58% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,868.20 | ↑ +104% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $4,212.23 | ↑ +122% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,641.84 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $5,074.00 | ↑ +168% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5,157.60 | ↑ +172% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,286.54 | ↑ +179% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $5,794.00 | ↑ +206% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,870.00 | ↑ +368% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $13,448.00 | ↑ +609% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $26,377.00 | ↑ +1292% |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,409.00 | $362.73 – $4,290.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,141.65 | $61.91 – $395.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $2,472.48 | $736.35 – $1,818.47 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,912.74 | $239.76 – $4,379.62 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,962.04 | $239.76 – $2,064.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,751.85 | $239.76 – $2,408.84 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,231.20 | $239.76 – $4,811.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,207.14 | $239.76 – $4,751.06 |