Platelet pheresis each unit at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$1,561.73
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.
$5,312.00
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.
$441.03 with BCBS - Anthem vs $28,686.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $441.03 | ↓ -72% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $441.03 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $441.03 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $441.03 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $441.03 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $441.03 | ↓ -72% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $478.93 | ↓ -69% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $507.11 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $563.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,089.34 | ↓ -30% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $1,115.52 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,115.52 | ↓ -29% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $2,390.40 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,027.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,187.20 | ↑ +104% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,824.64 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $4,143.36 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4,302.72 | ↑ +176% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,355.84 | ↑ +179% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,312.00 | ↑ +240% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,323.00 | ↑ +497% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $13,448.00 | ↑ +761% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $28,686.00 | ↑ +1737% |
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Platelet pheresis each unit at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,673.80 | $441.03 – $5,765.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,644.97 | $441.03 – $5,693.53 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $3,613.76 | $425.73 – $6,883.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $368.97 | $441.03 – $677.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $328.30 | not published |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $361.46 | $279.50 – $19,277.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $940.45 | not published |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $303.32 | $121.77 – $1,009.96 |