Brcassure comprehensive panel-sendout at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$862.15
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.
$2,005.00
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.
$501.25 with DHR vs $8,110.55 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 | $501.25 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $501.25 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,162.90 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,303.25 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,403.50 | ↑ +63% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,459.90 | ↑ +69% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,459.90 | ↑ +69% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,604.00 | ↑ +86% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $1,622.11 | ↑ +88% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $1,622.11 | ↑ +88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,622.11 | ↑ +88% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,622.11 | ↑ +88% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $1,622.11 | ↑ +88% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,622.11 | ↑ +88% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,622.11 | ↑ +88% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,622.11 | ↑ +88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,744.35 | ↑ +102% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.88 | ↑ +112% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,005.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $2,281.10 | ↑ +165% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $2,281.10 | ↑ +165% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $2,281.10 | ↑ +165% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $2,433.16 | ↑ +182% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $2,433.16 | ↑ +182% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $2,919.81 | ↑ +239% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,069.75 | ↑ +372% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $4,069.75 | ↑ +372% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $6,683.09 | ↑ +675% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $8,110.55 | ↑ +841% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $8,110.55 | ↑ +841% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $878.19 | $541.35 – $4,841.95 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,435.04 | $364.98 – $2,676.48 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,065.72 | $72.77 – $4,701.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,335.33 | $1,085.31 – $1,964.90 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $976.08 | $39.30 – $5,527.55 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,559.89 | $75.69 – $145.54 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $729.82 | $862.15 – $6,353.13 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $783.96 | $1,102.75 – $8,110.55 |