Red blood cells washed each unit at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$922.35
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.
$2,145.00
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.
$249.33 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 | $249.33 | ↓ -73% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $249.33 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $277.03 | ↓ -70% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $277.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $277.03 | ↓ -70% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $277.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $277.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $277.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $277.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $277.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $343.20 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $369.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $369.28 | ↓ -60% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $386.10 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $387.84 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $415.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $415.54 | ↓ -55% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $446.21 | ↓ -52% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $504.26 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $514.35 | ↓ -44% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $536.25 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $536.25 | ↓ -42% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $554.69 | ↓ -40% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $630.33 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $630.33 | ↓ -32% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $630.33 | ↓ -32% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $806.82 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,072.50 | ↑ +16% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,141.36 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,244.10 | ↑ +35% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,385.15 | ↑ +50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,385.15 | ↑ +50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,394.25 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,501.50 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,587.30 | ↑ +72% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,716.00 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,145.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,243.00 | ↑ +577% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,343.00 | ↑ +588% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,343.00 | ↑ +588% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $245.72 | $151.47 – $993.40 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $98.43 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,623.41 | $277.03 – $3,717.14 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,486.86 | $277.03 – $3,717.14 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $943.83 | $277.03 – $2,035.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $933.65 | $277.03 – $2,009.76 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $170.34 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $170.34 | not published |