Blood gases ph venous at St. Mary Medical Center

1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$53.32

Cash price

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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.

$124.00

Gross charge

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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.

$5.25 with DHR vs $47.85 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
DHR Medicaid|> 21 $5.25 ↓ -90%
DHR Medicaid|< 21 $5.25 ↓ -90%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $7.98 ↓ -85%
Noble IPA Medicaid|< 21 $8.61 ↓ -84%
Noble IPA Medicaid|> 21 $8.61 ↓ -84%
Partnership Health Plan Medicaid|< 21 $9.57 ↓ -82%
Inland Empire Health Plan Medicaid|All Plans $9.57 ↓ -82%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 $9.57 ↓ -82%
Angeles IPA Medicare|All Plans $9.57 ↓ -82%
Partnership Health Plan Medicaid|> 21 $9.57 ↓ -82%
Preferred IPA Medicaid|Risk $9.57 ↓ -82%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 $9.57 ↓ -82%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $10.29 ↓ -81%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $10.72 ↓ -80%
Central Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
SMIPA Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
HCLA Medicare|Preferred IPA $11.00 ↓ -79%
Molina Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
United Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
EasyChoice Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
Health Net Medicare|All Other Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Other Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
Health Net Medicare|HMO $11.00 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
LA Care Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
HPN Medicare|Senior $11.00 ↓ -79%
Scan Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $11.00 ↓ -79%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Exchange $12.18 ↓ -77%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $12.76 ↓ -76%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $12.76 ↓ -76%
United Commercial|Options PPO $13.20 ↓ -75%
United Commercial|Non-Options PPO $13.20 ↓ -75%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $13.20 ↓ -75%
United Commercial|HMO $13.20 ↓ -75%
Molina Medicaid|All Plans $13.40 ↓ -75%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|BlueShield Promise $13.65 ↓ -74%
HCLA Commercial|Preferred IPA $13.75 ↓ -74%
LA Care Commercial|All Plans $13.75 ↓ -74%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|Trauma $13.75 ↓ -74%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $14.36 ↓ -73%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $14.36 ↓ -73%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $14.70 ↓ -72%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $16.80 ↓ -68%
SevenCorners Medicare|All Plans $17.60 ↓ -67%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $18.27 ↓ -66%
HPN Commercial|All Plans $21.00 ↓ -61%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $21.00 ↓ -61%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $21.00 ↓ -61%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $21.00 ↓ -61%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $21.00 ↓ -61%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $24.53 ↓ -54%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $24.53 ↓ -54%
LA Care Medicaid|All Plans $27.48 ↓ -48%
Care 1st Medicaid|All Plans $47.85 ↓ -10%
Blue Shield CA Medicaid|All Plans $47.85 ↓ -10%

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