Echo transthoracic at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$1,376.86
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.
$3,202.00
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.
$175.17 with Partnership Health Plan 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -87% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -87% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -87% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -87% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $175.17 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $218.96 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $232.98 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $232.98 | ↓ -83% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $249.94 | ↓ -82% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $249.94 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $262.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $262.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $277.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $277.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $388.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $418.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $473.00 | ↓ -66% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $565.90 | ↓ -59% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $710.61 | ↓ -48% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $721.70 | ↓ -48% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $766.34 | ↓ -44% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $800.50 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $800.50 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $852.31 | ↓ -38% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $870.84 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $870.84 | ↓ -37% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $870.84 | ↓ -37% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $1,114.67 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,270.82 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,388.55 | ↑ +1% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,388.55 | ↑ +1% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,825.14 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,970.24 | ↑ +43% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $2,081.30 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,241.40 | ↑ +63% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $2,417.00 | ↑ +76% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,561.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $2,936.00 | ↑ +113% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,375.00 | ↑ +145% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,206.00 | ↑ +351% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,343.00 | ↑ +361% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,343.00 | ↑ +361% |
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Echo transthoracic at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,510.84 | $175.17 – $3,459.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,383.76 | $175.17 – $3,459.40 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $650.00 | $175.17 – $1,401.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,970.43 | $175.17 – $1,384.08 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,685.55 | $775.83 – $3,331.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,167.39 | $702.78 – $3,331.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,433.25 | $175.17 – $3,997.50 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,294.56 | $597.36 – $1,300.14 |