External pretreatment of serum for use in antibody identification by dilution at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$92.45
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.
$215.00
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.
$20.00 with DHR vs $119.40 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 | $20.00 | ↓ -78% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $20.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.49 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $23.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $23.88 | ↓ -74% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $23.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $23.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.88 | ↓ -74% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $23.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $23.88 | ↓ -74% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $27.02 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $29.60 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.60 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.60 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $29.60 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $30.40 | ↓ -67% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $31.12 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $31.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $31.83 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $31.83 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.43 | ↓ -64% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $34.23 | ↓ -63% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $35.82 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $35.82 | ↓ -61% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $38.90 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $38.90 | ↓ -58% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $38.90 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39.20 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $46.40 | ↓ -50% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $49.79 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $52.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $56.00 | ↓ -39% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $64.00 | ↓ -31% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $68.60 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $69.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $78.71 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $78.71 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $80.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $80.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $80.00 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $80.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $119.40 | ↑ +29% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $119.40 | ↑ +29% |
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External pretreatment of serum for use in antibody identification by dilution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $76.44 | $4.90 – $116.40 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $47.19 | $23.88 – $108.05 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $73.43 | $23.88 – $108.05 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $43.22 | $23.88 – $108.05 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $14.40 | $31.62 – $68.82 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $81.69 | $16.65 – $102.90 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $13.57 | $1.79 – $68.82 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $49.21 | $23.10 – $122.87 |