Cytopath c/v thin layer redo at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$86.86
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.
$202.00
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.
$11.25 with DHR vs $132.20 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 | $11.25 | ↓ -87% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.25 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.43 | ↓ -79% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $23.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.80 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $26.10 | ↓ -70% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $26.44 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.44 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.44 | ↓ -70% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.44 | ↓ -70% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $26.44 | ↓ -70% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $26.44 | ↓ -70% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $26.44 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.65 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $27.65 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $27.65 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $27.65 | ↓ -68% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $28.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $28.80 | ↓ -67% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $28.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $29.25 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $31.50 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $35.24 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $35.24 | ↓ -59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $36.00 | ↓ -59% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $36.86 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $37.02 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39.15 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $39.66 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $39.66 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $45.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $45.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $45.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $45.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $51.40 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $51.40 | ↓ -41% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $75.93 | ↓ -13% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $132.20 | ↑ +52% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $132.20 | ↑ +52% |
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Cytopath c/v thin layer redo at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $17.42 | $20.35 – $59.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $15.96 | $10.99 – $69.81 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $81.33 | $23.04 – $208.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $67.49 | $23.03 – $165.60 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $67.94 | $19.81 – $167.28 |
| Providence Saint John's Health Center | Santa Monica | $93.80 | $23.04 – $62.85 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $22.58 – $126.40 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $23.04 – $159.74 |