Mayo carnitine total and free quantitative each specimen plasma at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$16.45
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.
$55.92
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.
$5.71 with Kaiser vs $98.86 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|Affiliated Payers | $5.71 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.71 | ↓ -65% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $12.23 | ↓ -26% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $14.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $14.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $15.18 | ↓ -8% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $16.31 | ↓ -1% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $16.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $17.12 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $17.94 | ↑ +9% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $19.57 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.24 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $20.24 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $20.24 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20.24 | ↑ +23% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.20 | ↑ +29% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.50 | ↑ +31% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.50 | ↑ +31% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.50 | ↑ +31% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.50 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.50 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.50 | ↑ +31% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.28 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $24.46 | ↑ +49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $27.17 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $27.17 | ↑ +65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.17 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $27.17 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.17 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $98.86 | ↑ +501% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $98.86 | ↑ +501% |
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Mayo carnitine total and free quantitative each specimen plasma at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $31.94 | $2.72 – $21.74 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $11.91 | $4.28 – $44.78 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $40.69 | $3.37 – $27.16 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $85.17 | $16.53 – $137.06 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.94 | $13.59 – $43.49 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $18.10 | $14.71 – $26.63 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.93 | $7.34 – $51.12 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $20.75 | $13.59 – $48.50 |