Metabolic Blood Panel (Comprehensive) at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$277.35
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.
$645.00
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.
$10.56 with LA Care vs $309.60 with MultiPlan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.86 | ↓ -96% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.86 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.67 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.67 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12.67 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $12.67 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $13.18 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $13.18 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $13.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $13.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $13.20 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $13.20 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $13.20 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.98 | ↓ -95% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $16.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.45 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $19.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $19.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.54 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $23.54 | ↓ -92% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $37.86 | ↓ -86% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $65.90 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $65.90 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $70.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $84.13 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $84.13 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $84.13 | ↓ -70% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $96.75 | ↓ -65% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $96.75 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $104.54 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $147.06 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $162.07 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $189.63 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $251.55 | ↓ -9% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $270.90 | ↓ -2% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $309.60 | ↑ +12% |
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Metabolic Blood Panel (Comprehensive) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $230.83 | $10.56 – $32.95 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $85.76 | $2.11 – $132.89 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $540.60 | $10.35 – $86.39 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $384.35 | $5.59 – $27.19 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $219.78 | $10.56 – $25.88 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $352.02 | $3.02 – $31.97 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $366.18 | $10.56 – $76.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $362.23 | $10.56 – $75.05 |