Pulse ox single at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$81.70
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.
$190.00
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.
$6.41 with Inland Empire Health Plan vs $186.00 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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| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.41 | ↓ -92% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $6.41 | ↓ -92% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $6.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.41 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.02 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.53 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.53 | ↓ -90% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.62 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.62 | ↓ -88% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $10.17 | ↓ -88% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.17 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.24 | ↓ -83% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.41 | ↓ -68% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $46.50 | ↓ -43% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $46.50 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.85 | ↓ -38% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.85 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $107.88 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $115.32 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $115.32 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $120.90 | ↑ +48% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $130.20 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $148.80 | ↑ +82% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $178.56 | ↑ +119% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $186.00 | ↑ +128% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $186.00 | ↑ +128% |
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Pulse ox single at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $118.70 | $4.04 – $211.38 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $113.00 | $6.41 – $96.04 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $113.89 | $3.37 – $12.74 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $103.49 | $6.41 – $258.72 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $43.04 | $6.41 – $92.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $42.58 | $6.41 – $114.84 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $35.98 | $6.30 – $50.40 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $5.10 | $106.65 – $106.65 |