Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$15.05
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.
$35.00
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.
$1.50 with DHR vs $13,617.00 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 | $1.50 | ↓ -90% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $1.50 | ↓ -90% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $3.00 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.60 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3.60 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3.60 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $3.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4.20 | ↓ -72% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4.80 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $6.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6.69 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.69 | ↓ -56% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $7.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $7.50 | ↓ -50% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $7.50 | ↓ -50% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $9.60 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $10,456.00 | ↑ +69375% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13,617.00 | ↑ +90378% |
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Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $42.05 | $3.24 – $17.14 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $23.53 | $1.82 – $32.98 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $44.37 | $6.00 – $16.71 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $39.38 | $3.00 – $9.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $75.93 | $4.88 – $9.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $36.07 | $2.43 – $9.09 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $39.70 | $3.60 – $44.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $40.01 | $3.60 – $39.50 |