External recharg sys intern at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$4,487.05
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.
$10,435.00
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.
$1,234.00 with BCBS - Anthem vs $6,170.00 with SMIPA — 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,234.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $1,295.70 | ↓ -71% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,419.10 | ↓ -68% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,542.50 | ↓ -66% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,542.50 | ↓ -66% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,604.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,604.20 | ↓ -64% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $1,604.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,851.00 | ↓ -59% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $1,851.00 | ↓ -59% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $1,851.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,851.00 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $2,097.80 | ↓ -53% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,159.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $2,282.90 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,529.70 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $2,776.50 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,899.90 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,085.00 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,085.00 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3,085.00 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3,085.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,208.40 | ↓ -28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,208.40 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,393.50 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,578.60 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,578.60 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,578.60 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $4,010.50 | ↓ -11% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4,319.00 | ↓ -4% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,936.00 | ↑ +10% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $6,170.00 | ↑ +38% |
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External recharg sys intern at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3,638.47 | $535.68 – $1,740.96 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $3,555.40 | $1,910.61 – $8,140.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $3,256.35 | $1,578.33 – $8,140.86 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $920.08 | $620.00 – $2,232.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $910.16 | $620.00 – $2,405.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $583.30 | $515.84 – $1,984.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $3,617.70 | $507.12 – $2,070.74 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $510.88 | $228.16 – $952.32 |