Assay acid phosphatase at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$4.56
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.
$10.60
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.
$2.65 with DHR vs $47.05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.65 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.65 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4.03 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.20 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $6.15 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $6.89 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $7.42 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.60 | ↑ +67% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $7.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.47 | ↑ +86% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.47 | ↑ +86% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.48 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.17 | ↑ +101% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9.17 | ↑ +101% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.17 | ↑ +101% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9.17 | ↑ +101% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.23 | ↑ +102% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $9.41 | ↑ +106% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.41 | ↑ +106% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.41 | ↑ +106% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.41 | ↑ +106% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.41 | ↑ +106% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $9.41 | ↑ +106% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $9.41 | ↑ +106% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $9.55 | ↑ +109% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $9.55 | ↑ +109% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $9.55 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $10.60 | ↑ +132% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.60 | ↑ +132% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.60 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $10.60 | ↑ +132% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $10.60 | ↑ +132% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.60 | ↑ +132% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.60 | ↑ +132% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $12.22 | ↑ +168% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.12 | ↑ +210% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.12 | ↑ +210% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.05 | ↑ +274% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $17.05 | ↑ +274% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.03 | ↑ +493% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $47.05 | ↑ +932% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $47.05 | ↑ +932% |
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Assay acid phosphatase at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3.33 | $2.06 – $20.29 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.14 | $1.53 – $12.61 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $4.54 | $5.30 – $19.70 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $282.39 | $5.74 – $10.39 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4.16 | $2.87 – $23.16 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3.94 | $5.30 – $21.97 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3.90 | $5.30 – $21.97 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $6.06 | $1.06 – $8.48 |