Puncture spinal lumbar diagnostic at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$1,150.72
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.
$3,914.00
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.
$93.99 with Kaiser vs $6,009.00 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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| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $93.99 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $93.99 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $93.99 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $93.99 | ↓ -92% |
| HPSJ | Medicaid|> 21 | $117.49 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|All Plans | $117.49 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $365.96 | ↓ -68% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $400.26 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $400.26 | ↓ -65% |
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $835.17 | ↓ -27% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $884.29 | ↓ -23% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $953.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $982.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,143.60 | ↓ -1% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,372.32 | ↑ +19% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,562.92 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,601.04 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,601.04 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,696.34 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,906.00 | ↑ +66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,122.00 | ↑ +171% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,155.00 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,155.00 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,155.00 | ↑ +174% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,199.00 | ↑ +178% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,189.00 | ↑ +264% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $4,277.00 | ↑ +272% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $5,074.00 | ↑ +341% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $5,794.00 | ↑ +404% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $6,009.00 | ↑ +422% |
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Puncture spinal lumbar diagnostic at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | not published | $924.87 – $924.87 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $743.29 | $115.61 – $1,617.30 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $393.59 | $116.85 – $276.45 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,530.51 | $951.25 – $2,695.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,010.08 | $93.99 – $1,803.20 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,845.49 | $56.92 – $215.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,296.74 | $93.99 – $1,803.20 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $782.44 | $93.99 – $1,687.20 |