Insert swan-ganz cath at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$1,976.28
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.
$4,596.00
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.
$145.71 with HCLA vs $26,454.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $145.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $145.71 | ↓ -93% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $145.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $145.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $145.71 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $182.14 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $193.79 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $193.79 | ↓ -90% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $207.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $207.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $218.56 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $218.56 | ↓ -89% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $231.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $231.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $323.40 | ↓ -84% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $600.33 | ↓ -70% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,149.00 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,149.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,155.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,155.00 | ↓ -42% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -0% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,013.28 | ↑ +2% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $2,114.16 | ↑ +7% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $2,171.18 | ↑ +10% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $2,389.92 | ↑ +21% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $2,467.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $2,467.25 | ↑ +25% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $2,467.25 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,665.68 | ↑ +35% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,849.52 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,849.52 | ↑ +44% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $2,895.48 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $2,987.40 | ↑ +51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $3,062.00 | ↑ +55% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $3,158.08 | ↑ +60% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,217.20 | ↑ +63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,676.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $3,718.00 | ↑ +88% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,273.00 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,412.16 | ↑ +123% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $4,596.00 | ↑ +133% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,709.00 | ↑ +138% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,028.00 | ↑ +256% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $10,893.00 | ↑ +451% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $20,316.00 | ↑ +928% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26,454.00 | ↑ +1239% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,137.93 | $141.65 – $3,734.50 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,070.24 | $145.71 – $4,740.26 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,929.43 | $145.71 – $4,740.26 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,669.13 | $145.71 – $3,599.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,651.14 | $145.71 – $3,211.35 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,628.03 | $2,235.08 – $7,745.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,763.58 | $2,024.63 – $9,008.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,517.76 | $2,120.93 – $7,151.31 |