Alpha-fetoprotein amniotic at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$32.68
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.
$76.00
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.
$15.53 with Noble IPA vs $86.30 with Blue Shield CA — 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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| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.53 | ↓ -52% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.53 | ↓ -52% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -48% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $17.26 | ↓ -47% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.26 | ↓ -47% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.26 | ↓ -47% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.26 | ↓ -47% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $17.26 | ↓ -47% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $17.26 | ↓ -47% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $17.26 | ↓ -47% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $19.00 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $19.00 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $20.40 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $20.40 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20.40 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.40 | ↓ -38% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $21.25 | ↓ -35% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $21.25 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $21.25 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.01 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.01 | ↓ -30% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.16 | ↓ -26% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.89 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.89 | ↓ -21% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $27.20 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $28.88 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.24 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.91 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $37.91 | ↑ +16% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $44.08 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $49.40 | ↑ +51% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $49.56 | ↑ +52% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $53.20 | ↑ +63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $60.80 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $66.12 | ↑ +102% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $76.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $76.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $76.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $76.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.30 | ↑ +164% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.30 | ↑ +164% |
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Alpha-fetoprotein amniotic at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $26.92 | $3.40 – $41.71 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $29.72 | $15.20 – $86.30 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $24.78 | $15.20 – $76.00 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $25.31 | $14.62 – $86.30 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $16.66 – $136.95 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $17.00 – $173.07 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $17.00 – $196.27 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $17.00 – $78.29 |