CT angio hrt w/3d image at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$1,501.56
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.
$3,492.00
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.
$214.12 with SMIPA vs $3,263.42 with BCBS - Anthem — 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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| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $214.12 | ↓ -86% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $280.92 | ↓ -81% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $280.92 | ↓ -81% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $312.13 | ↓ -79% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $312.13 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $312.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $312.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $312.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $312.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $312.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $312.13 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $401.74 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $401.74 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $416.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $416.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $436.98 | ↓ -71% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $462.85 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $468.19 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $468.19 | ↓ -69% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $499.15 | ↓ -67% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $567.21 | ↓ -62% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $567.21 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $567.21 | ↓ -62% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $726.03 | ↓ -52% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $873.00 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $873.00 | ↓ -42% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,285.98 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,411.72 | ↓ -6% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,560.65 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,560.65 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,771.96 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,771.96 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,771.96 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,104.92 | ↑ +40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $2,269.80 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,444.40 | ↑ +63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,793.60 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3,263.42 | ↑ +117% |
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CT angio hrt w/3d image at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,184.75 | $401.74 – $3,890.64 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,095.26 | $312.13 – $2,295.16 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $7,634.36 | $312.13 – $2,419.62 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $873.38 | $274.05 – $994.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $290.50 | $312.13 – $752.23 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $287.37 | $312.13 – $752.23 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,701.47 | $291.55 – $2,108.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,660.27 | $291.55 – $2,305.12 |