Glucose-6-phosphate dhydrogenase screen at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton

1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$45.57

Cash price

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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.

$155.00

Gross charge

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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.

$5.14 with Medcore vs $35.42 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Medcore Commercial|With ER $5.14 ↓ -89%
Medcore Commercial|Without ER $5.14 ↓ -89%
Alignment Health Medicare|All Plans $5.45 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
Molina Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
United Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
Cigna Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
Hill Physicians Commercial|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
Scan Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $6.05 ↓ -87%
Kaiser Commercial|All Other Plans $6.72 ↓ -85%
Kaiser Commercial|Affiliated Payers $6.72 ↓ -85%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $7.26 ↓ -84%
United Commercial|Options PPO $7.26 ↓ -84%
United Commercial|HMO $7.26 ↓ -84%
United Commercial|Non-Options PPO $7.26 ↓ -84%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $7.72 ↓ -83%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $7.72 ↓ -83%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|< 21 $7.72 ↓ -83%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|> 21 $7.72 ↓ -83%
Health Plan of San Joaquin Medicaid|All Plans $7.72 ↓ -83%
HPSJ Medicaid|> 21 $7.72 ↓ -83%
Sutter UMR Commercial|All Plans $14.40 ↓ -68%
Health Net Medicaid|All Plans $19.07 ↓ -58%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $19.20 ↓ -58%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $20.16 ↓ -56%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Exchange $21.12 ↓ -54%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $23.04 ↓ -49%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $24.96 ↓ -45%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $26.24 ↓ -42%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Non-MCS $28.80 ↓ -37%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $32.00 ↓ -30%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $32.00 ↓ -30%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $32.00 ↓ -30%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $32.00 ↓ -30%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $35.42 ↓ -22%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $35.42 ↓ -22%

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Glucose-6-phosphate dhydrogenase screen at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center Stockton $102.78 $3.00 – $24.00
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $39.38 $6.05 – $18.62
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $51.95 $6.05 – $14.83
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $36.07 $5.13 – $18.62
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $59.36 $5.50 – $17.37
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $58.72 $5.50 – $17.37
Mercy Medical Center Merced Merced $86.01 $6.05 – $31.02
Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Grass Valley $140.07 $6.05 – $32.34

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