Myelography via inj w/s&i 2+ regions at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$3,372.77
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.
$11,472.00
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.
$952.80 with Medcore vs $8,422.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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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| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $952.80 | ↓ -72% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $1,008.85 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $1,120.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $1,205.19 | ↓ -64% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,205.19 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,589.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $2,869.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,199.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,443.40 | ↑ +2% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,132.08 | ↑ +23% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,189.00 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,209.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,209.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,209.00 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,376.00 | ↑ +30% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,705.98 | ↑ +40% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,820.76 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,820.76 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5,107.71 | ↑ +51% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5,739.00 | ↑ +70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,994.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $6,038.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $6,897.00 | ↑ +104% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8,422.00 | ↑ +150% |
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Myelography via inj w/s&i 2+ regions at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | not published | $1,055.14 – $1,055.14 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $811.62 | $500.31 – $1,859.28 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,009.01 | $694.98 – $2,522.52 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $857.39 | $623.97 – $1,848.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $848.14 | $269.54 – $1,825.69 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,836.95 | $1,008.25 – $8,018.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $1,005.72 | $1,090.80 – $4,042.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $3,648.96 | $857.02 – $5,171.00 |