Calcium chloride 100 mg/ml (10 %) intravenous syringe at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$115.24
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.
$268.00
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.
$1.60 with BCBS - Anthem vs $8.00 with SMIPA — 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 |
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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.00 | ↓ -98% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.00 | ↓ -98% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $2.40 | ↓ -98% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $2.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $2.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $3.68 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.68 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.64 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4.80 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.96 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.96 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $5.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5.60 | ↓ -95% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6.40 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.12 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.68 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $8.00 | ↓ -93% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -93% |
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Calcium chloride 100 mg/ml (10 %) intravenous syringe at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $36.81 | $24.30 – $52.92 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $97.65 | $2.03 – $6.37 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $25.12 | $1.54 – $6.09 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $29.72 | $5.46 – $26.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $29.02 | $4.16 – $20.80 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $18.32 | $11.00 – $46.75 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $0.03 – $0.03 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | not published | $0.03 – $0.03 |