MRI w/cont, breast, bi at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$858.28
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.
$1,996.00
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.
$448.70 with SMIPA vs $1,996.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $448.70 | ↓ -48% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $462.85 | ↓ -46% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $499.00 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $499.00 | ↓ -42% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $499.15 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $567.21 | ↓ -34% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $567.21 | ↓ -34% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $567.21 | ↓ -34% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $695.00 | ↓ -19% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $726.03 | ↓ -15% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $787.00 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $828.27 | ↓ -3% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $828.27 | ↓ -3% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $828.27 | ↓ -3% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $828.27 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,157.68 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,297.40 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,397.20 | ↑ +63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,596.80 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,736.52 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,922.00 | ↑ +124% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,922.00 | ↑ +124% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,996.00 | ↑ +133% |
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MRI w/cont, breast, bi at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,141.82 | $453.77 – $3,814.20 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $10,247.08 | $1,011.00 – $3,829.84 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,202.17 | $430.69 – $3,352.98 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $2,198.80 | $453.77 – $7,881.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $2,239.25 | $453.77 – $3,647.43 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $819.93 | $453.77 – $2,097.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $987.46 | $453.77 – $2,423.20 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $678.99 | $453.77 – $1,671.98 |