Chromo high res and frag x - sendout at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$47.30
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.
$110.00
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.
$20.90 with DHR vs $228.15 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 |
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| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $20.90 | ↓ -56% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $20.90 | ↓ -56% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $41.07 | ↓ -13% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $41.07 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.63 | ↓ -4% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $45.63 | ↓ -4% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $45.63 | ↓ -4% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $45.63 | ↓ -4% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $45.63 | ↓ -4% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $45.63 | ↓ -4% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $45.63 | ↓ -4% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.63 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $48.49 | ↑ +3% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $54.34 | ↑ +15% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $57.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $58.52 | ↑ +24% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $60.82 | ↑ +29% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $60.82 | ↑ +29% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $63.88 | ↑ +35% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $66.88 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $68.45 | ↑ +45% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $68.45 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $68.45 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $68.45 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $68.45 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $68.45 | ↑ +45% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $71.30 | ↑ +51% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $71.30 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $71.30 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.74 | ↑ +54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $83.60 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $83.60 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $83.60 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $83.60 | ↑ +77% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $91.26 | ↑ +93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $127.22 | ↑ +169% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $127.22 | ↑ +169% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $188.00 | ↑ +297% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $228.15 | ↑ +382% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $228.15 | ↑ +382% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $50.49 | $11.41 – $87.30 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $148.09 | $41.80 – $146.99 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $94.35 | $45.26 – $81.93 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $135.64 | $22.58 – $172.79 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $60.67 | $41.80 – $163.93 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $60.02 | $41.80 – $163.93 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $93.38 | $8.36 – $66.88 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $48.08 | $17.56 – $83.60 |