Brachy source yttrium-90 at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$42,241.05
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.
$98,235.00
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.
$19,647.00 with BCBS - Anthem vs $78,588.00 with MultiPlan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $19,647.00 | ↓ -53% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $20,083.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $20,629.35 | ↓ -51% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $22,594.05 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $22,660.91 | ↓ -46% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $24,438.23 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $24,558.75 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $24,558.75 | ↓ -42% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $25,541.10 | ↓ -40% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $25,541.10 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $25,541.10 | ↓ -40% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $27,770.71 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $27,770.71 | ↓ -34% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $27,770.71 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29,470.50 | ↓ -30% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $29,470.50 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $29,470.50 | ↓ -30% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $29,470.50 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $33,399.90 | ↓ -21% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $34,382.25 | ↓ -19% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $35,546.51 | ↓ -16% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $36,346.95 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $40,276.35 | ↓ -5% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $44,205.75 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $46,170.45 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $49,117.50 | ↑ +16% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $49,117.50 | ↑ +16% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $49,117.50 | ↑ +16% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $49,117.50 | ↑ +16% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $51,082.20 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $51,082.20 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $54,029.25 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $56,976.30 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $56,976.30 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $56,976.30 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $63,852.75 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $68,764.50 | ↑ +63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $78,588.00 | ↑ +86% |
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Brachy source yttrium-90 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $27,230.46 | $14,920.80 – $48,492.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $59,436.32 | $17,415.59 – $17,771.01 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $26,608.76 | $14,299.10 – $60,926.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $24,370.64 | $11,812.30 – $60,926.60 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $26,089.10 | $17,580.25 – $56,256.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $25,807.81 | $17,580.25 – $55,553.59 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $59,436.32 | $17,771.01 – $17,771.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $22,534.63 | not published |