Brain image < 4 views at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$913.32
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.
$2,124.00
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.
$151.50 with Noble IPA vs $1,699.20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $151.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $151.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $168.33 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $168.33 | ↓ -82% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $168.33 | ↓ -82% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $168.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $168.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $168.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $168.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $168.33 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $224.38 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $224.38 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $235.66 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $252.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $252.50 | ↓ -72% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $432.58 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $510.57 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $520.79 | ↓ -43% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $531.00 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $531.00 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $540.46 | ↓ -41% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $561.63 | ↓ -39% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $638.21 | ↓ -30% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $638.21 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $638.21 | ↓ -30% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $693.52 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $805.85 | ↓ -12% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $816.91 | ↓ -11% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $841.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $841.65 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↓ -7% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $1,083.24 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,087.59 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,087.59 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,087.59 | ↑ +19% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $1,210.68 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,249.37 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,380.60 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,486.80 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,533.86 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,533.86 | ↑ +68% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,699.20 | ↑ +86% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,986.35 | $168.33 – $2,070.74 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $663.35 | $168.33 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $656.20 | $168.33 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $490.98 | $168.33 – $835.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $996.01 | $168.33 – $848.52 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $959.49 | $168.33 – $3,439.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $346.29 | $151.50 – $1,364.43 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $225.61 | $168.33 – $1,972.88 |