Incisn windpipe at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$5,278.77
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.
$17,955.00
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.
$230.70 with BCBS - Anthem vs $10,344.00 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 | $230.70 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $230.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $230.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $230.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $288.37 | ↓ -95% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $288.37 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $898.24 | ↓ -83% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,172.24 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $2,172.24 | ↓ -59% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $4,141.14 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,209.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,209.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,209.00 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,376.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $4,601.27 | ↓ -13% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $4,654.80 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,994.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,051.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,206.40 | ↑ +18% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,447.68 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,922.00 | ↑ +50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8,422.00 | ↑ +60% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $8,482.08 | ↑ +61% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,688.96 | ↑ +65% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8,688.96 | ↑ +65% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9,206.16 | ↑ +74% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10,344.00 | ↑ +96% |
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Incisn windpipe at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $6,726.38 | $1,178.00 – $9,424.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $5,792.07 | $3,632.00 – $6,619.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $704.63 | $230.70 – $1,036.84 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,280.39 | $230.70 – $7,073.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3,245.02 | $230.70 – $6,985.18 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $6,268.92 | $4,707.49 – $16,652.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,598.78 | $4,264.23 – $16,652.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $2,901.90 | $4,417.00 – $5,198.77 |