Red blood cells leukocytes reduced each unit at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$606.73
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.
$1,411.00
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.
$166.63 with Noble IPA vs $6,343.00 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $166.63 | ↓ -73% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $166.63 | ↓ -73% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $185.15 | ↓ -69% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $185.15 | ↓ -69% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $185.15 | ↓ -69% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $185.15 | ↓ -69% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $185.15 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $185.15 | ↓ -69% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $185.15 | ↓ -69% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $185.15 | ↓ -69% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $221.33 | ↓ -64% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $225.76 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $231.25 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $235.88 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $246.80 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $246.80 | ↓ -59% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $253.98 | ↓ -58% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $254.38 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $259.21 | ↓ -57% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $277.73 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $277.73 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $289.06 | ↓ -52% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $289.06 | ↓ -52% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $289.06 | ↓ -52% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $352.75 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $352.75 | ↓ -42% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $370.00 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $705.50 | ↑ +16% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $762.82 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $818.38 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $917.15 | ↑ +51% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $925.75 | ↑ +53% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $925.75 | ↑ +53% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $987.70 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,044.14 | ↑ +72% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,128.80 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,411.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,243.00 | ↑ +929% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,343.00 | ↑ +945% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,343.00 | ↑ +945% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Red blood cells leukocytes reduced each unit at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $318.87 | $196.56 – $567.84 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $353.43 | $36.40 – $305.50 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $187.17 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $490.49 | $185.15 – $748.72 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $170.50 | $66.23 – $250.88 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $449.24 | $185.15 – $748.72 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $934.92 | $185.15 – $1,884.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $924.84 | $185.15 – $1,860.45 |