Hla typing a b or c at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$172.00
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.
$400.00
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.
$57.81 with BCBS - Anthem vs $369.70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $57.81 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -66% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.75 | ↓ -66% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $58.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $66.55 | ↓ -61% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $66.55 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $69.60 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $69.60 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $69.60 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $69.60 | ↓ -60% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $72.50 | ↓ -58% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $72.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $72.50 | ↓ -58% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $73.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $73.94 | ↓ -57% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $73.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $89.30 | ↓ -48% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $92.80 | ↓ -46% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $98.56 | ↓ -43% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $98.56 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $103.52 | ↓ -40% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $110.91 | ↓ -36% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $110.91 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $115.15 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $129.35 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $129.35 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $136.30 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $152.75 | ↓ -11% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $164.50 | ↓ -4% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $188.00 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $204.45 | ↑ +19% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $212.39 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $235.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $235.00 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $235.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $235.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $369.70 | ↑ +115% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $369.70 | ↑ +115% |
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Hla typing a b or c at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $133.56 | $58.00 – $288.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $132.12 | $58.00 – $284.40 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $205.56 | $36.00 – $288.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $105.84 | $49.30 – $295.20 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $172.38 | $56.84 – $508.92 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $185.40 | $58.00 – $338.40 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $128.08 | $58.00 – $230.30 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $112.46 | $58.00 – $154.75 |