Fluoroguide needle placement at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$540.51
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.
$1,257.00
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.
$59.86 with Noble IPA vs $1,257.00 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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| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $59.86 | ↓ -89% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $59.86 | ↓ -89% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $66.51 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $66.51 | ↓ -88% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $66.51 | ↓ -88% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $66.51 | ↓ -88% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $66.51 | ↓ -88% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $66.51 | ↓ -88% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $66.51 | ↓ -88% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $66.51 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $88.66 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $88.66 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $93.11 | ↓ -83% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $99.77 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $99.77 | ↓ -82% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $154.25 | ↓ -71% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $154.25 | ↓ -71% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $274.02 | ↓ -49% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $314.67 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $318.89 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $332.07 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $332.07 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $332.07 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $332.55 | ↓ -38% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $332.55 | ↓ -38% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $351.69 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $357.86 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $382.54 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $382.54 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $401.05 | ↓ -26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $431.90 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $475.48 | ↓ -12% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $493.60 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $592.32 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $617.00 | ↑ +14% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,257.00 | ↑ +133% |
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Fluoroguide needle placement at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,216.77 | $100.63 – $2,166.84 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $581.87 | $109.74 – $860.39 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,106.19 | $262.41 – $392.94 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $658.27 | $66.51 – $1,292.62 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,963.37 | $21.48 – $81.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $536.26 | $66.51 – $765.38 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $480.82 | $66.51 – $1,036.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $475.64 | $66.51 – $1,283.04 |