Screening prostate cancer PSA at St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton
1800 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1528190931
$347.51
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.
$1,182.00
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.
$16.41 with Medcore vs $716.68 with MultiPlan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medcore | Commercial|Without ER | $16.41 | ↓ -95% |
| Medcore | Commercial|With ER | $16.41 | ↓ -95% |
| Alignment Health | Medicare|All Plans | $17.38 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.17 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $23.17 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $23.17 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.17 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $113.10 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $113.10 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $180.59 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Other Plans | $183.54 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|Affiliated Payers | $183.54 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $247.52 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $347.78 | ↑ +0% |
| Sutter UMR | Commercial|All Plans | $393.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $524.40 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $550.62 | ↑ +58% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $629.28 | ↑ +81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $681.72 | ↑ +96% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $716.68 | ↑ +106% |
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Screening prostate cancer PSA at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $525.32 | $5.20 – $41.60 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $212.29 | $5.59 – $49.75 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $130.54 | $6.06 – $11.18 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $194.44 | $3.02 – $58.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $314.98 | $19.31 – $55.48 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $311.59 | $19.31 – $55.48 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $161.83 | $5.82 – $11.18 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $114.33 | $14.79 – $47.94 |