Cytopath tbs c/v manual at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$46.01
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.
$107.00
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.
$7.50 with DHR vs $69.20 with Care 1st — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.50 | ↓ -84% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.50 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.46 | ↓ -73% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.46 | ↓ -73% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $13.84 | ↓ -70% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -70% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $13.84 | ↓ -70% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -70% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $15.12 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $17.40 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $18.18 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.18 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $18.18 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $18.18 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $18.19 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.45 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.45 | ↓ -60% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.38 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $19.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $20.76 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $20.76 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $21.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $22.74 | ↓ -51% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $22.74 | ↓ -51% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $22.74 | ↓ -51% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.00 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.10 | ↓ -43% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $29.10 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $30.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $30.00 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $30.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $35.51 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.51 | ↓ -23% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $39.76 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $69.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $69.20 | ↑ +50% |
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Cytopath tbs c/v manual at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $34.61 | $18.18 – $61.62 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $17.81 | $8.00 – $45.76 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $17.62 | $8.00 – $45.76 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $14.41 | $10.29 – $40.18 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $43.80 | $13.84 – $69.20 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $35.86 | $7.50 – $35.51 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $36.63 | $9.00 – $69.20 |
| Providence Little Co of Mary Med Center San Pedro | San Pedro | $93.10 | $18.54 – $36.38 |