Acetone qualitative at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$30.10
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.
$70.00
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.
$4.52 with Cigna vs $69.28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.85 | ↓ -84% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.85 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.32 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.39 | ↓ -82% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $5.39 | ↓ -82% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $5.39 | ↓ -82% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $5.39 | ↓ -82% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.39 | ↓ -82% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.39 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.39 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.42 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.42 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.42 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.42 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $5.65 | ↓ -81% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $5.65 | ↓ -81% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $5.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.18 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.18 | ↓ -76% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $7.23 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.55 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.08 | ↓ -73% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.08 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10.09 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.09 | ↓ -66% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.49 | ↓ -49% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.50 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.50 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $26.60 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.95 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $29.97 | ↓ -0% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.30 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $36.01 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $36.01 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $36.01 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $44.69 | ↑ +48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $45.50 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $49.00 | ↑ +63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $56.00 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $69.28 | ↑ +130% |
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Acetone qualitative at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $143.82 | $4.43 – $36.93 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $135.87 | $4.52 – $183.26 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $129.85 | $4.52 – $86.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $128.45 | $4.52 – $85.32 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $106.78 | $4.52 – $149.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $79.97 | $3.84 – $223.04 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $84.66 | $4.43 – $39.71 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $52.13 | $2.36 – $4.52 |