Echo transesophageal intraop at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$1,404.81
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.
$3,267.00
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.
$230.40 with Noble IPA vs $6,343.00 with United — 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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| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $230.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $230.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $256.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $256.00 | ↓ -82% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $256.00 | ↓ -82% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $256.00 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $256.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $256.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $256.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $256.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $341.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $341.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $358.40 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $384.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $384.00 | ↓ -73% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $565.90 | ↓ -60% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $710.61 | ↓ -49% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $766.34 | ↓ -45% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $816.75 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $816.75 | ↓ -42% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $870.84 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $870.84 | ↓ -38% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $870.84 | ↓ -38% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,054.72 | ↓ -25% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $1,114.67 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,280.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,280.00 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,511.94 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,862.19 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $2,123.55 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,254.35 | ↑ +60% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,286.90 | ↑ +63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,613.60 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3,267.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,206.00 | ↑ +342% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,343.00 | ↑ +352% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,343.00 | ↑ +352% |
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Echo transesophageal intraop at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,026.26 | $256.00 – $2,565.64 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $806.31 | $775.83 – $2,197.46 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,828.32 | $597.36 – $1,300.14 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $861.70 | $280.31 – $1,300.14 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $762.42 | $230.40 – $1,985.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $780.85 | $542.13 – $1,300.14 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $1,377.89 | $256.00 – $7,832.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $1,347.36 | $597.36 – $1,300.14 |