Ghs protoporphyrins fract at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$15.56
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.
$52.91
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.
$3.36 with Kaiser vs $84.08 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|All Other Plans | $3.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $3.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $7.20 | ↓ -54% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $9.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $10.08 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $10.56 | ↓ -32% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11.52 | ↓ -26% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $12.20 | ↓ -22% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $12.20 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.48 | ↓ -20% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $12.91 | ↓ -17% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $13.12 | ↓ -16% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $14.35 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $14.40 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $84.08 | ↑ +440% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $84.08 | ↑ +440% |
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Ghs protoporphyrins fract at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $30.22 | $1.60 – $12.80 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $38.19 | $2.87 – $59.17 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $22.65 | $5.45 – $36.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $35.24 | $14.35 – $35.17 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $20.75 | $2.95 – $43.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $19.63 | $8.00 – $41.25 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $19.42 | $8.00 – $41.25 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $41.17 | $8.32 – $15.68 |