Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (with contrast) at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$7,000.73
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.
$23,812.00
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.
$229.95 with Kaiser vs $4,941.00 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 |
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| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $229.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $229.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $380.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $380.88 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $380.88 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $380.88 | ↓ -95% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $380.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $380.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $430.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $456.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $492.75 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $506.70 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $657.00 | ↓ -91% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $788.40 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $828.27 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $828.27 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $828.27 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $828.27 | ↓ -88% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $897.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $940.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,095.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,095.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,095.00 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,409.00 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,930.00 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,712.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $4,941.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,941.00 | ↓ -29% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (with contrast) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,693.70 | $453.77 – $4,797.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $3,060.38 | $71.43 – $5,226.36 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $6,185.79 | $470.15 – $3,102.10 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,918.11 | $380.88 – $5,519.36 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $8,313.68 | $380.88 – $3,150.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,556.24 | $380.88 – $2,111.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,469.01 | $380.88 – $5,324.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,442.39 | $380.88 – $5,257.45 |