Amino acids quant 2-5 at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$39.17
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.
$91.08
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.
$19.61 with Blue Shield CA vs $112.55 with Care 1st — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -50% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $20.26 | ↓ -48% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $20.26 | ↓ -48% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $22.51 | ↓ -43% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $22.51 | ↓ -43% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.51 | ↓ -43% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.51 | ↓ -43% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.51 | ↓ -43% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $22.51 | ↓ -43% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $22.51 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.68 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.77 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.77 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.53 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $23.53 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.53 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $23.53 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $24.51 | ↓ -37% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $24.51 | ↓ -37% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $24.51 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.01 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.01 | ↓ -23% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $31.38 | ↓ -20% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $31.51 | ↓ -20% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $33.77 | ↓ -14% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $33.77 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $34.62 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.75 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $43.75 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $44.63 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $52.83 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $59.21 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $63.76 | ↑ +63% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $64.64 | ↑ +65% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $72.87 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $79.24 | ↑ +102% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $91.08 | ↑ +133% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $91.08 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $91.08 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $91.08 | ↑ +133% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $112.55 | ↑ +187% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $112.55 | ↑ +187% |
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Amino acids quant 2-5 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $63.61 | $19.61 – $89.26 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $58.26 | $19.61 – $89.26 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $170.43 | $15.69 – $214.67 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $35.62 | $18.22 – $112.55 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $29.70 | $18.22 – $85.20 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $111.06 | $15.69 – $214.67 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $30.33 | $16.86 – $112.55 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $127.93 | $15.69 – $214.67 |